Serious A14 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 23 March 2025 at 06:49 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire at 06:49 on Sunday 23 March 2025. A 33-year-old female passenger and a 37-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 2025
- Sunday, 06:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21416, longitude 0.21639, 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
- 2025351615694
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2016.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1303 in South Cambridgeshire, 3 September 2016
3 m awayRef 2016350113572
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 July 2017
18 m awayRef 2017350208506
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 7 August 2023
19 m awayRef 2023351354907
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 16 January 2025
30 m awayRef 2025351545290
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A45 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 January 1990
31 m awayRef 1990352017990
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 January 2014
31 m awayRef 2014350007614
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025351615694 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 2025.