A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 5 February 2014 at 23:20 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 23:20 on Wednesday 5 February 2014. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38318, longitude 0.28144, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350019214
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 6 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002350445402
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 12 March 2002
20 m awayRef 2002350127102
Serious
Ford Scorpio crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 2 August 2002
22 m awayRef 2002350387402
Fatal
Citroen Xantia crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 17 June 2007
30 m awayRef 2007350250107
Slight
MZ crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 4 March 1998
73 m awayRef 1998350143198
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 20 May 1997
73 m awayRef 1997350250097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014350019214 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 2014.