A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 16 December 2011 at 12:00 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra, were involved in a crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 12:00 on Friday 16 December 2011. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus, a 57-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus and the 51-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2011
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25583, longitude 0.02653, in the CB23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bar Hill, South Cambridgeshire, CB23 8EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011351005211
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1995.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 11 March 1995
10 m awayRef 1995350125095
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 23 November 2013
14 m awayRef 2013353093013
Slight
Bedford crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 May 1993
14 m awayRef 1993350225393
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 21 November 1995
20 m awayRef 1995350558195
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 October 1981
20 m awayRef 1981352171181
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire, 12 November 1985
20 m awayRef 1985352228885
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 2011351005211 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 2011.