A10 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 16 September 1979 at 15:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire at 15:00 on Sunday 16 September 1979. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 63-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1979
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27115, longitude 0.17788, in the CB25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979352133779
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 10
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2001.
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001350417001
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009350243509
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987352031087
Serious
Nissan crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 1 February 1996
At the same spotRef 1996350060396
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 September 2003
At the same spotRef 2003350533503
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 April 2016
8 m awayRef 2016350061745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 1979352133779 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 1979.