B1085 crash in East Cambridgeshire on 24 February 1998 at 07:20 involving a Peugeot 305
A Peugeot 305 crashed on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire at 07:20 on Tuesday 24 February 1998. The 29-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
- 24 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 305
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29276, longitude 0.45171, in the CB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350101898
- Council area
- East Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1085
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 16 March 1985
At the same spotRef 1985352047685
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 13 October 1986
At the same spotRef 1986352214686
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 5 March 2003
50 m awayRef 2003350128403
Slight
MG Montego crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 29 December 1997
50 m awayRef 1997350694497
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2013
51 m awayRef 2013353127713
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B1085 in East Cambridgeshire, 7 December 2019
52 m awayRef 2019350911513
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 305
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 305)
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 1998350101898 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 1998.