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Serious B1049 crash in Cambridge on 9 October 1979 at 17:35 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on the B1049 in Cambridge at 17:35 on Tuesday 9 October 1979. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and an 11-year-old male pedestrian was 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
Serious
Date
9 Oct 1979
Tuesday, 17:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07462, longitude 0.34488, in the CB21 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979351146679
Council area
Cambridge
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1049
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    59 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1979351146679 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 1979.