B1049 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 27 June 1998 at 15:45 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire at 15:45 on Saturday 27 June 1998. The 39-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Discovery was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jun 1998
- Saturday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29996, longitude 0.13661, in the CB24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350318698
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2013.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 March 2013
10 m awayRef 2013350091313
Slight
Car crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 15 October 1997
10 m awayRef 1997350528597
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005350031105
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 May 2020
13 m awayRef 2020350952099
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 October 2012
14 m awayRef 2012350495212
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 January 1995
14 m awayRef 1995350049895
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
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 1998350318698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1998.