Serious A141 crash in Fenland on 22 October 2009 at 05:40 involving a Daewoo Lanos
A car, a Daewoo Lanos and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A141 in Fenland at 05:40 on Thursday 22 October 2009. The 58-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Lanos was seriously injured and a 20-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Daewoo Lanos and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50171, longitude 0.08055, in the PE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Doddington and Wimblington.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009350349909
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 141
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2019.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A141 in Fenland, 16 July 2019
67 m awayRef 2019350861159
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A141 in Fenland, 16 July 1984
94 m awayRef 1984351179384
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B1093 in Fenland, 23 December 1997
121 m awayRef 1997350686997
Slight
Car crash on the B1093 in Fenland, 31 January 2021
126 m awayRef 2021351019324
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1093 in Fenland, 4 January 1997
130 m awayRef 1997350004897
Slight
Van crash on the A141 in Fenland, 14 February 1979
130 m awayRef 1979354010679
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Lanos)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Transit)
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 2009350349909 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2009.