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Serious B1104 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 7 October 1997 at 19:10 involving an Austin Maestro

An Austin Maestro crashed on the B1104 in East Cambridgeshire at 19:10 on Tuesday 7 October 1997. A 42-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Oct 1997
Tuesday, 19:10
Vehicles
1
Austin Maestro
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3589, longitude 0.39677, in the CB7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997350508597
Council area
East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1104
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 206 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    1,600 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)

    Car passenger
    Front 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 1997350508597 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1997.