A1123 crash in Huntingdonshire on 17 May 2025 at 16:49 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire at 16:49 on Saturday 17 May 2025. The 67-year-old male driver of the Kia Sportage and a 66-year-old female passenger in the Kia Sportage were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2025
- Saturday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33349, longitude -0.08329, in the PE27 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Ives. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ives West, Huntingdonshire, PE27 6TS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Huntingdonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351601954
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1123
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1992.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire, 14 December 1992
2 m awayRef 1992351360592
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire, 26 October 1999
12 m awayRef 1999350476399
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire, 25 March 2005
20 m awayRef 2005350146205
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire, 30 March 1998
22 m awayRef 1998350156898
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Huntingdonshire, 27 November 1989
29 m awayRef 1989351394089
Slight
Car crash on the A1123 in Huntingdonshire, 9 November 1985
29 m awayRef 1985351317785
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
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 2025351601954 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 2025.