A1307 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 12 August 2014 at 06:30 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry, a Renault Trucks lorry and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A1307 in South Cambridgeshire at 06:30 on Tuesday 12 August 2014. The 40-year-old male driver of the DAF Trucks lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- DAF Trucks and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10427, longitude 0.26089, in the CB21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Linton, South Cambridgeshire, CB21 6BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350144714
- 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
- 1307
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1991.
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 30 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991352126991
Slight
DAF Trucks FTP 85CF crash on the A1307 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 December 2009
At the same spotRef 2009352637809
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 10 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992352276692
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A1307 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 June 2011
At the same spotRef 2011350656311
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1307 in South Cambridgeshire, 28 December 2014
At the same spotRef 2014350230114
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the A1307 in South Cambridgeshire, 16 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998350642098
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,837 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
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 2014350144714 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.