Fatal A604 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 25 March 1992 at 05:25 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry crashed on the A604 in South Cambridgeshire at 05:25 on Wednesday 25 March 1992. The 23-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 25 Mar 1992
- Wednesday, 05:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27475, longitude -0.01631, in the CB24 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992352064892
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 604
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2001.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 23, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
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 1992352064892 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1992.