A1303 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 10 February 2008 at 18:30 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A car and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire at 18:30 on Sunday 10 February 2008. The 41-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Discovery and an 87-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21581, longitude 0.21663, in the CB25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fen Ditton & Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire, CB25 9AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350053208
- 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
- 1303
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1102
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 February 2014
At the same spotRef 2014350025414
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 28 March 1995
At the same spotRef 1995350163695
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000350469800
Fatal
Fiat 500 crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 January 2022
2 m awayRef 2022351138950
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 December 2024
2 m awayRef 2024351564084
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B1102 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016350141035
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2008350053208 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 2008.