B1040 crash in Huntingdonshire on 24 December 2005 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire at 21:30 on Saturday 24 December 2005. A 25-year-old female passenger in the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44812, longitude -0.10651, in the PE26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, PE26 1AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Huntingdonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005350659705
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1040
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 9 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001350632101
Slight
Car crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 21 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002350544802
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 18 December 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350652701
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 12 October 2007
14 m awayRef 2007350423507
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 21 January 1999
14 m awayRef 1999350034099
Slight
DS DS7 crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 8 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025351680141
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- 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 2005350659705 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 2005.