B1096 crash in Huntingdonshire on 8 December 1997 at 18:00 involving an MG MGB
An MG MGB crashed on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire at 18:00 on Monday 8 December 1997. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1997
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG MGB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45796, longitude -0.09022, in the PE26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350647097
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1096
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 April 2017.
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 1 April 2017
21 m awayRef 2017350169378
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 8 February 2003
124 m awayRef 2003350079103
Slight
Car crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 3 February 2005
133 m awayRef 2005350060205
Slight
New Holland crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 3 October 2002
139 m awayRef 2002350497602
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 15 November 2001
146 m awayRef 2001350576901
Serious
Car crash on the B1096 in Huntingdonshire, 5 October 2006
153 m awayRef 2006350445306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG MGB
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG MGB)
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 1997350647097 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 1997.