A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 28 September 2012 at 08:45 involving a Mercedes C Class
A van and two Mercedes C Class cars were involved in a crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 08:45 on Friday 28 September 2012. The 56-year-old male driver of the van and the 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2012
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes C Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23784, longitude 0.14347, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge, Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton & Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire, CB4 0GN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350444512
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2009.
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 4 September 2009
22 m awayRef 2009350288109
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 1 November 2015
22 m awayRef 2015350211215
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 September 2019
23 m awayRef 2019350881029
Serious
MAN crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 October 2013
30 m awayRef 2013353095313
Slight
Volvo crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 31 October 2013
30 m awayRef 2013354149213
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 12 March 2013
40 m awayRef 2013350097613
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2012350444512 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 2012.