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C road crash in Cambridge CB1 on 25 January 1990 at 12:00 involving a Ford Escort

Two Ford Escorts were involved in a crash on a C road in Cambridge at 12:00 on Thursday 25 January 1990. A 41-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Jan 1990
Thursday, 12:00
Vehicles
2
Ford Escort and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20484, longitude 0.12575, in the CB1 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
1990352023290
Council area
Cambridge
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
C
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
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1994.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    1,297 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years
    Engine capacity
    1,297 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1990352023290 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.