A140 crash in Broadland on 21 December 1979 at 17:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A140 in Broadland at 17:30 on Friday 21 December 1979. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1979; Friday, 17:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979360021765
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 140
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: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Tree
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1979360021765 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.