A1309 crash in Cambridge on 10 November 1996 at 15:00 involving a Citroen Visa
A Citroen Visa and a Mitsubishi Colt were involved in a crash on the A1309 in Cambridge at 15:00 on Sunday 10 November 1996. The 22-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Colt was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 1996
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Visa and Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17154, longitude 0.11276, in the CB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996350549396
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1309
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1301
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1301 in Cambridge, 7 July 2016
9 m awayRef 2016350099019
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 12 October 2001
10 m awayRef 2001350506701
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 9 April 2021
11 m awayRef 2021351039050
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A1301 in Cambridge, 3 June 2025
14 m awayRef 2025351631269
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 10 December 1990
14 m awayRef 1990352327890
Serious
ERF crash on the A1309 in Cambridge, 23 January 2002
14 m awayRef 2002350036602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Visa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,468 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Colt)
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 1996350549396 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 1996.