Unclassified road crash in East Cambridgeshire CB6 on 18 September 2017 at 14:18 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport crashed on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire at 14:18 on Monday 18 September 2017. The 84-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2017
- Monday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Ecosport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40083, longitude 0.26301, in the CB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ely. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ely East, East Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350225938
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2001.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 26 January 2001
5 m awayRef 2001350045601
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 3 November 2021
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Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 3 March 2014
9 m awayRef 2014350035314
Slight
Citroen AX crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 21 June 2001
15 m awayRef 2001350311901
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Cambridgeshire, 4 March 1992
23 m awayRef 1992352048292
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in East Cambridgeshire, 17 June 2002
41 m awayRef 2002350298502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Ecosport)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017350225938 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 2017.