B1085 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 13 October 1986 at 05:45 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire at 05:45 on Monday 13 October 1986. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1986
- Monday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29276, longitude 0.45171, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986352214686
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1085
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 24 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998350101898
Slight
Car crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 16 March 1985
At the same spotRef 1985352047685
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 March 2003
50 m awayRef 2003350128403
Slight
MG Montego crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 29 December 1997
50 m awayRef 1997350694497
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2013
51 m awayRef 2013353127713
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2019
52 m awayRef 2019350911513
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 1986352214686 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 1986.