Unclassified road crash in South Cambridgeshire CB22 on 19 July 2025 at 19:52 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire at 19:52 on Saturday 19 July 2025. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 19:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12679, longitude 0.17183, in the CB22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sawston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sawston, South Cambridgeshire, CB22 3BQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351624988
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 2021.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 22 October 2021
3 m awayRef 2021351175157
Serious
Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 23 January 2005
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Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 30 March 2016
9 m awayRef 2016350045816
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 20 February 1995
14 m awayRef 1995350089495
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 23 May 2007
21 m awayRef 2007350212907
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 1 November 1991
21 m awayRef 1991352255891
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025351624988 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.