B1150 crash in Broadland on 19 December 1979 at 07:05 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1150 in Broadland at 07:05 on Wednesday 19 December 1979. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 19 Dec 1979; Wednesday, 07:05
Vehicles: 2; Car and motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360021718
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 1150
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 70 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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)

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 1979360021718 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.