Serious A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 4 April 2019 at 12:22 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 12:22 on Thursday 4 April 2019. The 20-year-old male driver of the Mazda 3 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 2019
- Thursday, 12:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21452, longitude 0.21501, in the CB25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fen Ditton & Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire, CB25 9AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019350834530
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2021.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 August 2021
1 m awayRef 2021351075468
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 April 2016
5 m awayRef 2016350066455
Slight
Car crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 3 December 2005
5 m awayRef 2005350633205
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 21 February 2020
6 m awayRef 2020350938822
Serious
Car crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 August 2013
7 m awayRef 2013353041213
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 January 2004
7 m awayRef 2004350041704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 3)
- Serious injury band
- Very 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 2019350834530 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2019.