A505 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 17 April 1995 at 11:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire at 11:25 on Monday 17 April 1995. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 17 Apr 1995
- Monday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0766, longitude 0.08638, in the SG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995350185295
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- 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
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 January 2008
At the same spotRef 2008350015808
Serious
Abarth 500 crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 1 October 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 February 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350103601
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 9 December 2008
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 February 1999
14 m awayRef 1999350095299
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 December 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1995350185295 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 1995.