A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 18 July 2016 at 06:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 06:55 on Monday 18 July 2016. The 38-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2016
- Monday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36387, longitude 0.30669, in the CB7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soham North, East Cambridgeshire, CB7 5TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016350101716
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 2007.
Serious
HGV crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 8 February 2007
4 m awayRef 2007350059507
Slight
Ford crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 30 August 1991
4 m awayRef 1991352204991
Slight
Leyland crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 25 February 1992
8 m awayRef 1992352055792
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 July 2013
8 m awayRef 2013353022113
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 2 July 2003
8 m awayRef 2003350338603
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 16 February 2006
8 m awayRef 2006350069006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016350101716 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 2016.