B1039 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 4 November 1979 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire at 15:45 on Sunday 4 November 1979. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1979
- Sunday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02846, longitude 0.07277, in the SG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979352164179
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1039
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 184 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 January 1996.
Serious
Land Rover 109 crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 January 1996
184 m awayRef 1996350011096
Slight
Car crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 July 1980
200 m awayRef 1980352117080
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 2 November 2024
224 m awayRef 2024351536888
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in South Cambridgeshire, 19 March 2012
270 m awayRef 2012350126012
Slight
Nissan Stanza crash on the B1039 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 January 1990
292 m awayRef 1990352005790
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Cambridgeshire, 20 July 1985
316 m awayRef 1985352159485
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979352164179 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.