A14 crash in Huntingdonshire on 25 April 1998 at 21:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A14 in Huntingdonshire at 21:45 on Saturday 25 April 1998. A 73-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1998
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29322, longitude -0.06183, in the PE28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350204498
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 23 December 1990.
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A604 in Huntingdonshire, 23 December 1990
14 m awayRef 1990352341990
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A14 in Huntingdonshire, 1 November 1999
28 m awayRef 1999350488399
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A14 in Huntingdonshire, 10 August 2003
40 m awayRef 2003350424803
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A14 in South Cambridgeshire, 2 January 1996
58 m awayRef 1996350002596
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Huntingdonshire, 19 August 2006
76 m awayRef 2006350366206
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A14 in Huntingdonshire, 30 May 2017
87 m awayRef 2017350191605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 1998350204498 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 1998.