A505 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 16 August 2015 at 09:18 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a John Deere agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire at 09:18 on Sunday 16 August 2015. The 26-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 09:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and John Deere
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08971, longitude 0.1175, in the CB22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350125515
- 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
- 505
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2003.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 16 May 2003
54 m awayRef 2003350253203
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 2 October 2009
128 m awayRef 2009350323009
Slight
Volvo crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 5 October 2008
130 m awayRef 2008350353208
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 July 2002
136 m awayRef 2002350347802
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 October 2012
144 m awayRef 2012350472812
Slight
Huoniao HN 125 crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 26 July 2015
192 m awayRef 2015350119415
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: John Deere
Agricultural vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,788 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
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 2015350125515 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.