B1049 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 9 October 2013 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire at 09:00 on Wednesday 9 October 2013. The 16-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24772, longitude 0.10923, in the CB24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Histon and Impington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Histon & Impington, South Cambridgeshire, CB24 9YN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013353078713
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 September 2025
8 m awayRef 2025351650805
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 27 April 1991
10 m awayRef 1991352095391
Slight
Car crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 26 October 1993
10 m awayRef 1993350516493
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 21 May 1991
14 m awayRef 1991352115891
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 9 January 1991
14 m awayRef 1991352007091
Slight
Van crash on the B1049 in South Cambridgeshire, 31 October 1994
14 m awayRef 1994350509594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2013353078713 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 2013.