A603 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 17 December 1989 at 16:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire at 16:20 on Sunday 17 December 1989. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1989
- Sunday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17286, longitude 0.04291, in the CB23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989352303389
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 603
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 June 1996.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 June 1996
At the same spotRef 1996350276096
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 28 September 2002
82 m awayRef 2002350487602
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 October 1984
100 m awayRef 1984352215584
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 23 January 1999
175 m awayRef 1999350037799
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 November 2007
186 m awayRef 2007350473607
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 October 2025
195 m awayRef 2025351664327
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1989352303389 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 1989.