Serious B1085 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 28 August 2016 at 23:45 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire at 23:45 on Sunday 28 August 2016. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29321, longitude 0.4516, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016350108273
- 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
- 1085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2013
4 m awayRef 2013353127713
Slight
MG Montego crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 29 December 1997
13 m awayRef 1997350694497
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2019
17 m awayRef 2019350911513
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 March 2003
23 m awayRef 2003350128403
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 February 1998
55 m awayRef 1998350101898
Slight
Car crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 16 March 1985
55 m awayRef 1985352047685
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016350108273 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 2016.