A1309 crash in Cambridge on 11 February 2004 at 16:40 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1309 in Cambridge at 16:40 on Wednesday 11 February 2004. The 49-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2004
- Wednesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Kawasaki ER500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.187, longitude 0.12069, in the CB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Petersfield, Cambridge, CB2 8AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004350073404
- 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
- 1309
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 2 October 2008
14 m awayRef 2008350351708
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 16 August 2001
14 m awayRef 2001350412701
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 26 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025351674157
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 17 November 2009
20 m awayRef 2009350387609
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 26 April 2012
20 m awayRef 2012350187212
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 15 September 1997
20 m awayRef 1997350469897
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER500
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER500)
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 2004350073404 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 2004.