A1303 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 22 April 2015 at 17:10 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire at 17:10 on Wednesday 22 April 2015. The 30-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21135, longitude 0.19296, in the CB1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fen Ditton & Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire, CB5 8AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350069315
- 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
- 1303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 December 2016
13 m awayRef 2016350142385
Slight
Mercedes CLC Class crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 March 2015
14 m awayRef 2015350040315
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 April 2013
20 m awayRef 2013350136913
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 October 2023
23 m awayRef 2023351364676
Slight
Car crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 11 July 1987
36 m awayRef 1987352123087
Slight
BMW X6 crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 5 June 2016
51 m awayRef 2016350083850
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2015350069315 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.