B1149 crash in Broadland on 20 December 1979 at 19:40 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1149 in Broadland at 19:40 on Thursday 20 December 1979. The 68-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 20 Dec 1979; Thursday, 19:40
Vehicles: 2; Car and bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360021753
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 1149
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
68 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Cyclist
Slight
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 1979360021753 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.