A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 29 July 2012 at 17:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 17:40 on Sunday 29 July 2012. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2909, longitude 0.39152, in the CB8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350343012
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 142
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2002.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 21 December 2002
14 m awayRef 2002350681202
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Yamaha DT 125 RE crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 18 August 2011
14 m awayRef 2011350803811
Serious
Citroen Gsa crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 9 October 1994
22 m awayRef 1994350468594
Slight
Scania crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 9 June 2001
28 m awayRef 2001350288601
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 20 February 2021
29 m awayRef 2021351027625
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 26 October 2002
30 m awayRef 2002350546702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 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 2012350343012 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 2012.