A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 10 January 2019 at 10:22 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 10:22 on Thursday 10 January 2019. The 77-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was 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
- 10 Jan 2019
- Thursday, 10:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Ceed and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42209, longitude 0.09783, in the CB6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019350809363
- 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 23 September 2020.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 23 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020350983644
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 23 May 2000
10 m awayRef 2000350224300
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 23 March 2017
11 m awayRef 2017350170636
Fatal
Suzuki Alto crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 3 October 1995
12 m awayRef 1995350452795
Slight
Fiat Regata crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 12 September 1995
12 m awayRef 1995350411695
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire, 19 November 2006
13 m awayRef 2006350520606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019350809363 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 2019.