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A1134 crash in Cambridge on 25 December 1979 at 22:15 involving a car

A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A1134 in Cambridge at 22:15 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 29-year-old male driver of the taxi and a 27-year-old female passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Dec 1979
Tuesday, 22:15
Vehicles
2
Car and taxi
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17836, longitude 0.13824, in the CB2 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
1979351199679
Council area
Cambridge
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1134
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2001.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 27, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 1979351199679 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.