A605 crash in Fenland on 29 November 2015 at 20:30 involving a Chevrolet Lacetti
A Chevrolet Lacetti and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A605 in Fenland at 20:30 on Sunday 29 November 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2015
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Chevrolet Lacetti and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5576, longitude -0.12484, in the PE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whittlesey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whittlesey South, Fenland, PE7 1GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350195815
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 605
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 2002.
Serious
Car crash on the A605 in Fenland, 11 September 2002
22 m awayRef 2002350453102
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 12 June 1980
28 m awayRef 1980351145080
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A605 in Fenland, 16 June 1988
28 m awayRef 1988351201788
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 12 June 1987
28 m awayRef 1987351171187
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 26 May 1984
28 m awayRef 1984351130684
Slight
Van crash on the A605 in Fenland, 13 February 1987
28 m awayRef 1987351043187
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Lacetti
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2015350195815 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2015.