A1134 crash in Cambridge on 24 October 1990 at 03:12 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A1134 in Cambridge at 03:12 on Wednesday 24 October 1990. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 24 Oct 1990
- Wednesday, 03:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19949, longitude 0.11364, in the CB3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990352274490
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1134
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2012.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 4 December 2012
10 m awayRef 2012350564812
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 22 July 2021
22 m awayRef 2021351072537
Serious
Fiat Fiorino crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 13 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990352176690
Fatal
Car crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 28 December 1997
30 m awayRef 1997350688797
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 2 August 2005
30 m awayRef 2005350372205
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A1134 in Cambridge, 21 June 2000
36 m awayRef 2000350273100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1990352274490 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.