C road crash in Broadland on 21 December 1979 at 17:45 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Broadland at 17:45 on Friday 21 December 1979. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1979; Friday, 17:45
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360021734
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

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

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
22 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 1979360021734 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.