A1198 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 18 December 1993 at 05:35 involving a Leyland DAF 400 minibus
A Leyland DAF 400 minibus hit a pedestrian on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire at 05:35 on Saturday 18 December 1993. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1993
- Saturday, 05:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland DAF 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08524, longitude -0.03991, in the SG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993350629893
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1198
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A14 in Cambridge, 16 August 1980
At the same spotRef 1980352129180
Fatal
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Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 21 December 2019
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 24 February 2008
102 m awayRef 2008350070508
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 June 1987
141 m awayRef 1987352108787
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 March 1998
190 m awayRef 1998350153898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF 400
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF 400)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1993350629893 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 1993.