Serious unclassified road crash in South Cambridgeshire CB24 on 27 November 2025 at 01:37 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire at 01:37 on Thursday 27 November 2025. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 01:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2508, longitude 0.17162, in the CB24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milton & Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire, CB25 9NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351679720
- 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
- 50 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
- A
- Second road number
- 10
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2019.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 19 December 2019
12 m awayRef 2019350912475
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 26 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019350917451
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 April 2007
13 m awayRef 2007350159707
Serious
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 February 2002
13 m awayRef 2002350081702
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 5 February 2008
13 m awayRef 2008350046808
Serious
Lada Riva crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 September 1991
13 m awayRef 1991352220491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2025351679720 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.