Serious M11 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 26 January 2014 at 04:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire at 04:45 on Sunday 26 January 2014. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jan 2014
- Sunday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09528, longitude 0.14072, in the CB22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heathfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whittlesford, South Cambridgeshire, CB22 4QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350010014
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 September 2015.
Fatal
BMW 2 Series crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 September 2015
14 m awayRef 2015350154115
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 March 2008
22 m awayRef 2008350098708
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 March 2020
30 m awayRef 2020350942708
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 21 May 2007
36 m awayRef 2007350223307
Slight
Car crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 March 1997
45 m awayRef 1997350151697
Slight
Scania crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 4 April 2011
50 m awayRef 2011350476211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2014350010014 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 2014.