Serious B1040 crash in Huntingdonshire on 25 February 2017 at 13:25 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire at 13:25 on Saturday 25 February 2017. The 25-year-old male driver and a 13-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19432, longitude -0.17017, in the PE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Huntingdonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350163770
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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 22 August 2010.
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 22 August 2010
4 m awayRef 2010352051010
Slight
Car crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 16 December 1996
4 m awayRef 1996350625996
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 18 December 2009
4 m awayRef 2009352653009
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 22 December 2022
5 m awayRef 2022351273244
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 26 October 1991
7 m awayRef 1991351300291
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1040 in Huntingdonshire, 31 October 1999
9 m awayRef 1999350488099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017350163770 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 2017.