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Unclassified road crash in Cambridge CB1 on 27 January 1990 at 09:55 involving a Ford Transit van

A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cambridge at 09:55 on Saturday 27 January 1990. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Jan 1990
Saturday, 09:55
Vehicles
1
Ford Transit
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20743, longitude 0.12207, 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
1990352025290
Council area
Cambridge
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
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
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 9 January 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Transit

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years
    Engine capacity
    2,496 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1990352025290 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.