A47 crash in Fenland on 19 November 2016 at 21:04 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A47 in Fenland at 21:04 on Saturday 19 November 2016. The 23-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift and the 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 21:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6119, longitude 0.06804, in the PE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016350139774
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A47 in Fenland, 16 September 1991
1 m awayRef 1991351256191
Serious
Volvo crash on the A47 in Fenland, 24 March 1993
9 m awayRef 1993350139993
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A47 in Fenland, 13 May 1995
11 m awayRef 1995350217595
Fatal
Leyland crash on the A47 in Fenland, 3 December 1990
15 m awayRef 1990351379990
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A47 in Fenland, 21 October 1998
15 m awayRef 1998350512898
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A47 in Fenland, 7 June 1995
21 m awayRef 1995350257695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016350139774 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 2016.