B1411 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 26 May 2015 at 23:19 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire at 23:19 on Tuesday 26 May 2015. The 19-year-old female driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2015
- Tuesday, 23:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43175, longitude 0.22566, in the CB6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350077315
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1411
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2005.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 20 November 2005
10 m awayRef 2005350583605
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 30 January 2015
10 m awayRef 2015350009615
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2004
10 m awayRef 2004350650804
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 2 May 2021
33 m awayRef 2021351044027
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 10 February 2011
311 m awayRef 2011350274211
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B1411 in East Cambridgeshire, 25 May 2019
337 m awayRef 2019350843878
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015350077315 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2015.