Serious C road crash in South Cambridgeshire CB21 on 23 December 2015 at 23:49 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on a C road in South Cambridgeshire at 23:49 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 42-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
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 23:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07399, longitude 0.34032, in the CB21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350224015
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1992.
Slight
Morris 1100 crash on a C road in South Cambridgeshire, 7 November 1992
28 m awayRef 1992352242092
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 22 February 1988
120 m awayRef 1988352040388
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 14 November 1988
120 m awayRef 1988352242688
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 4 August 1982
220 m awayRef 1982352132982
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 18 July 1980
301 m awayRef 1980352112780
Serious
Car crash on the B1049 in Cambridge, 2 September 1988
311 m awayRef 1988352182488
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015350224015 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.