A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 26 October 2015 at 20:29 involving a Skoda Citigo
A Skoda Citigo and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 20:29 on Monday 26 October 2015. The 26-year-old male driver of the Skoda Citigo and a 28-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Citigo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2015
- Monday, 20:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Citigo and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39219, longitude 0.13284, in the CB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton, East Cambridgeshire, CB6 2QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350176215
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1381
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2009.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 13 October 2009
10 m awayRef 2009350335809
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 8 March 2002
14 m awayRef 2002350121502
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 19 January 2019
15 m awayRef 2019350814353
Serious
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 18 April 2016
17 m awayRef 2016350065958
Slight
Car crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 20 July 2007
22 m awayRef 2007350304207
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 25 October 2020
24 m awayRef 2020350995495
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
- 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 2015350176215 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 2015.