B1047 crash in Cambridge on 14 October 2020 at 17:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Skoda Fabia and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the B1047 in Cambridge at 17:30 on Wednesday 14 October 2020. The 24-year-old male driver of the Skoda Fabia and the 59-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2020
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21553, longitude 0.16886, in the CB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Cambridge, CB5 8WL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020350990159
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2014.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B1047 in Cambridge, 12 May 2014
4 m awayRef 2014350065214
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1047 in Cambridge, 5 February 1997
6 m awayRef 1997350064697
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 27 April 1993
6 m awayRef 1993350198893
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the B1047 in Cambridge, 17 August 2007
9 m awayRef 2007350366607
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B1047 in Cambridge, 10 April 2000
13 m awayRef 2000350156700
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1047 in Cambridge, 8 December 2006
13 m awayRef 2006350566906
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020350990159 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2020.