A11 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 4 April 1996 at 20:45 involving a Toyota Cressida
A Toyota Cressida crashed on the A11 in South Cambridgeshire at 20:45 on Thursday 4 April 1996. A 74-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1996
- Thursday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Cressida
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17182, longitude 0.28096, in the CB21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996350177696
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1999.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Cressida
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Cressida)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1996350177696 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 1996.