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Serious A10 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 15 October 2025 at 21:30 involving a BMW 3 Series

A BMW 3 Series and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A10 in East Cambridgeshire at 21:30 on Wednesday 15 October 2025. The 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 Oct 2025
Wednesday, 21:30
Vehicles
2
BMW 3 Series and Volkswagen Transporter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39194, longitude 0.24263, in the CB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ely. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ely West, East Cambridgeshire, CB7 4NR area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2025351655715
Council area
East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Police attended the scene
No, reported using a self completion form
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
10
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
142

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

Serious injury band
Less 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 2006.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Position at junction
    Leaving roundabout
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Personal business or leisure
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years
    Engine capacity
    2,498 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Driver home area deprivation
    40 to 50% most deprived
    Distance from driver's home
    5 to 10 km

  • Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Position at junction
    Leaving roundabout
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    1,968 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)

    Serious injury band
    Less serious
    Home area deprivation
    40 to 50% most 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 2025351655715 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2025.