Unclassified road crash in East Cambridgeshire IP28 on 6 January 2004 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and an LDV 400 Series minibus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire at 13:00 on Tuesday 6 January 2004. All eleven casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2004
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and LDV 400 Series
- Casualties
- 11
- 11 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29508, longitude 0.47637, in the IP28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004350007204
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: LDV 400 Series
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (11)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 7: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 8: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 9: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 10: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 11: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 400 Series)
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 2004350007204 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 2004.