C road crash in Cambridge CB1 on 18 December 1979 at 17:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Cambridge at 17:25 on Tuesday 18 December 1979. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1979
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20275, longitude 0.13209, in the CB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979351193879
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 7 March 1981
At the same spotRef 1981352038981
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cambridge, 8 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981352206881
Slight
Car crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 12 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988352056288
Slight
Car crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 29 January 1985
At the same spotRef 1985352017585
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cambridge, 30 May 1979
At the same spotRef 1979351083379
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 6 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983352137983
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1979351193879 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.