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Serious C road crash in Fenland PE15 on 20 September 1989 at 17:10 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Fenland at 17:10 on Wednesday 20 September 1989. The 20-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
20 Sep 1989
Wednesday, 17:10
Vehicles
2
Motor scooter and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54709, longitude 0.08385, in the PE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of March.

Map of where the crash happened in Fenland

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989351294489
Council area
Fenland
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
C
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 with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years
    Engine capacity
    1,256 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1989351294489 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 1989.