Serious C road crash in Cambridge CB4 on 29 March 1990 at 23:55 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cambridge at 23:55 on Thursday 29 March 1990. The 26-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Mar 1990
- Thursday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Carbodies Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21375, longitude 0.12574, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990352087790
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1997.
Slight
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Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on a C road in Cambridge, 11 March 2003
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Cambridge, 18 May 2000
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Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Cambridge, 14 February 1992
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,286 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1990352087790 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.