Unclassified road crash in Fenland PE7 on 17 January 2018 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fenland at 08:30 on Wednesday 17 January 2018. The 39-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira, the 41-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 and a 9-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55264, longitude -0.05047, in the PE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018350260875
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 85 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 January 1996.
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Fenland, 21 January 1996
85 m awayRef 1996350034696
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Fenland, 12 October 2009
105 m awayRef 2009350335109
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on a C road in Fenland, 9 September 2004
140 m awayRef 2004350476704
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Fenland, 27 January 1998
170 m awayRef 1998350067398
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Fenland, 9 March 2013
244 m awayRef 2013350096413
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Fenland, 23 February 1994
244 m awayRef 1994350093694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018350260875 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 2018.