Unclassified road crash in South Cambridgeshire CB4 on 29 January 2015 at 16:10 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Derbi Senda motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire at 16:10 on Thursday 29 January 2015. The 17-year-old male rider of the Derbi Senda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Derbi Senda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23505, longitude 0.13598, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge, Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the King's Hedges, Cambridge, CB4 2UE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350009215
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2005.
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 20 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005350520605
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 15 July 2025
35 m awayRef 2025351616792
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 2 July 2025
52 m awayRef 2025351610752
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 1 October 1996
60 m awayRef 1996350464996
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 17 April 2013
64 m awayRef 2013350143313
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 21 October 2008
67 m awayRef 2008350377708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Derbi Senda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Derbi Senda)
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 2015350009215 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 2015.