Serious C road crash in Broadland on 13 December 1979 at 12:05 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Broadland at 12:05 on Thursday 13 December 1979. A 25-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 13 Dec 1979; Thursday, 12:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360021707
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 1979360021707 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.