A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 15 December 2012 at 12:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 12:00 on Saturday 15 December 2012. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39182, longitude 0.26689, in the CB7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ely. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ely East, East Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350582812
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2005.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 17 September 2005
10 m awayRef 2005350458505
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 8 July 1998
10 m awayRef 1998350336698
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 14 August 2010
14 m awayRef 2010352004010
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 30 December 1998
14 m awayRef 1998350665298
Slight
Austin Morris crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 April 1994
20 m awayRef 1994350192894
Slight
MAN crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 2 October 2002
20 m awayRef 2002350516502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012350582812 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.