Fatal A1151 crash in Broadland on 30 December 1979 at 09:20 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1151 in Broadland at 09:20 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 68-year-old male cyclist was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 30 Dec 1979; Sunday, 09:20
Vehicles: 2; Car and bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 killed

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360011537
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1151
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: Unclassified

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: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
68 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Cyclist
Fatal
Male, aged 68, 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 1979360011537 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broadland road accident statistics for 1979.