Fatal A1304 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 17 December 2012 at 13:25 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa, a Renault Clio and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire at 13:25 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19494, longitude 0.3151, in the CB8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350587212
- 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
- 1304
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2002.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire, 27 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002350620802
Fatal
Honda crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire, 29 January 2003
28 m awayRef 2003350068803
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire, 4 May 2005
72 m awayRef 2005350209805
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A1304 in South Cambridgeshire, 30 June 2007
150 m awayRef 2007350270707
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire, 1 October 2003
150 m awayRef 2003350513803
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A1304 in East Cambridgeshire, 8 March 2011
172 m awayRef 2011350422811
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2012350587212 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.