Serious A1198 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 2 February 2007 at 07:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire at 07:20 on Friday 2 February 2007. There were four casualties: three people were seriously injured and one was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 2007
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27661, longitude -0.13831, in the PE28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007350047907
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1198
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2012.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 November 2012
At the same spotRef 2012350532612
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 16 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000350475300
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 26 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000350277900
Slight
Car crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 26 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007350312107
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 11 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997350658097
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 12 October 2007
10 m awayRef 2007350423407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2007350047907 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2007.