Serious unclassified road crash in Fenland PE7 on 18 March 2017 at 20:07 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Fenland at 20:07 on Saturday 18 March 2017. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four 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
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53562, longitude -0.13728, in the PE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350174941
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1040 in Fenland, 24 April 2009
2 m awayRef 2009350129309
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1040 in Fenland, 8 January 1991
8 m awayRef 1991351009991
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1040 in Fenland, 20 May 2009
18 m awayRef 2009350160609
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B1040 in Cambridge, 21 December 2016
27 m awayRef 2016350172291
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1040 in Fenland, 28 April 1996
30 m awayRef 1996350209696
Fatal
Audi S3 crash on the B1040 in Fenland, 1 August 2017
55 m awayRef 2017350206462
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017350174941 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 2017.