C road crash in East Cambridgeshire CB6 on 14 December 2002 at 19:18 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire at 19:18 on Saturday 14 December 2002. The 39-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2002
- Saturday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Uno and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38675, longitude 0.20226, in the CB6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002350668102
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2018.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 2 December 2018
13 m awayRef 2018350803910
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 6 September 2002
20 m awayRef 2002350445702
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 14 October 2020
24 m awayRef 2020350990016
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 28 November 2012
30 m awayRef 2012350553012
Fatal
Honda C90 crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 4 April 2006
122 m awayRef 2006350141706
Slight
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 September 1981
158 m awayRef 1981352143781
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2002350668102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2002.