A605 crash in Fenland on 11 September 2009 at 15:44 involving a Citroen Saxo
A motorcycle and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on the A605 in Fenland at 15:44 on Friday 11 September 2009. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2009
- Friday, 15:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55069, longitude -0.18603, in the PE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009350296109
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 605
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1991.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A605 in Fenland, 4 June 1991
10 m awayRef 1991351151691
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in Fenland, 5 January 1988
14 m awayRef 1988351005188
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A605 in Fenland, 2 October 1980
14 m awayRef 1980351241880
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A605 in Fenland, 19 May 2000
36 m awayRef 2000350220200
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A605 in Fenland, 8 June 1996
36 m awayRef 1996350281396
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A605 in Fenland, 24 August 2009
54 m awayRef 2009350288909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2009350296109 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2009.