Serious B1040 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 16 November 2015 at 17:35 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire at 17:35 on Monday 16 November 2015. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 2015
- Monday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2131, longitude -0.15095, in the PE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350188915
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1040
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 2003.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 October 2003
42 m awayRef 2003350562103
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 February 2003
42 m awayRef 2003350095103
Slight
MG MGF crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 April 2003
57 m awayRef 2003350208203
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 26 August 2009
57 m awayRef 2009350274809
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 3 December 2019
112 m awayRef 2019350916200
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B1040 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 September 2025
127 m awayRef 2025351646408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2015350188915 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.