Serious B1039 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 3 May 2014 at 14:00 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio and a ridden horse were involved in a crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire at 14:00 on Saturday 3 May 2014. The 44-year-old female rider of the ridden horse was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 May 2014
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Rio and ridden horse
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03003, longitude 0.05815, in the SG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350079614
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1039
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 August 1994.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 10 August 1994
51 m awayRef 1994350367694
Serious
Car crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 4 July 1993
71 m awayRef 1993350307593
Serious
Car crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 7 November 1979
216 m awayRef 1979352165679
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 23 June 1994
412 m awayRef 1994350287994
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 9 August 1993
650 m awayRef 1993350373893
Serious
Van crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 4 November 1988
712 m awayRef 1988352233988
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ridden horse
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 44, horse rider, on vehicle 2 (Ridden horse)
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 2014350079614 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 2014.