B1140 crash in Broadland on 18 December 1980 at 17:20 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the B1140 in Broadland at 17:20 on Thursday 18 December 1980. The 45-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1980
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980360021706
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 1980360021706 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 1980.