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A47 crash in Fenland on 13 October 1998 at 08:50 involving a MAN lorry

A MAN lorry and a Volvo 940 were involved in a crash on the A47 in Fenland at 08:50 on Tuesday 13 October 1998. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Volvo 940 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Slight
Date
13 Oct 1998
Tuesday, 08:50
Vehicles
2
MAN and Volvo 940
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64175, longitude 0.13077, in the PE14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Fenland

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998350497798
Council area
Fenland
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
47
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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
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 12 March 1999.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: MAN

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years

  • Vehicle 2: Volvo 940

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    1,986 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 940)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 1998350497798 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 1998.