C road crash in Broadland on 31 December 1979 at 17:25 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Broadland at 17:25 on Monday 31 December 1979. The 55-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1979
- Monday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979360021779
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1979360021779 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.