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Serious A1303 crash in Cambridge on 26 August 2003 at 18:40 involving a Mazda 323

A Mazda 323 crashed on the A1303 in Cambridge at 18:40 on Tuesday 26 August 2003. A female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Aug 2003
Tuesday, 18:40
Vehicles
1
Mazda 323
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21024, longitude 0.11331, in the CB3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 3AL area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003350439803
Council area
Cambridge
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1303
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights unlit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Mazda 323

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    1,498 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 2003350439803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2003.