B1166 crash in Fenland on 17 May 2017 at 08:18 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B1166 in Fenland at 08:18 on Wednesday 17 May 2017. The 65-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 52-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2017
- Wednesday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A5 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65651, longitude 0.02354, in the PE13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350188205
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1166
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2014.
Slight
Daihatsu Yrv crash on the B1166 in Fenland, 18 February 2014
2 m awayRef 2014350034614
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B1166 in Fenland, 24 March 2001
2 m awayRef 2001350162001
Slight
Car crash on the B1187 in Fenland, 9 March 2008
2 m awayRef 2008350088408
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 10 April 2019
3 m awayRef 2019350832446
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the B1166 in Fenland, 8 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025351695639
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 16 November 2016
6 m awayRef 2016350131223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017350188205 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.