A1303 crash in Cambridge on 8 January 1990 at 16:10 involving a Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle
A Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1303 in Cambridge at 16:10 on Monday 8 January 1990. The 51-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 1990
- Monday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki KH125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21553, longitude 0.13153, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990352012390
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 1993.
Serious
Morris Mini crash on the A1303 in Cambridge, 12 September 1993
At the same spotRef 1993350425393
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A1303 in Cambridge, 17 August 1996
At the same spotRef 1996350384896
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1303 in Cambridge, 9 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002350450002
Serious
Car crash on the A1303 in Cambridge, 30 January 2014
At the same spotRef 2014350014314
Serious
Skoda Yeti crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 15 June 2017
9 m awayRef 2017350197974
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1303 in Cambridge, 4 January 2003
10 m awayRef 2003350002903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KH125
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KH125)
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 1990352012390 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 1990.