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Serious A142 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 1 July 1985 at 16:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A142 in East Cambridgeshire at 16:50 on Monday 1 July 1985. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Jul 1985
Monday, 16:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39353, longitude 0.12364, in the CB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton.

Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985352131185
Council area
East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
142
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 April 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, 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 1985352131185 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1985.