C road crash in South Cambridgeshire CB22 on 9 December 1998 at 08:50 involving a Citroen BX
A Citroen BX hit a pedestrian on a C road in South Cambridgeshire at 08:50 on Wednesday 9 December 1998. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12078, longitude 0.16937, in the CB22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sawston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998350622798
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2019.
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Serious
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Serious
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Fatal
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen BX)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998350622798 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.