A140 crash in Broadland on 20 December 1980 at 12:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A140 in Broadland at 12:05 on Saturday 20 December 1980. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 20 Dec 1980; Saturday, 12:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1980360021709
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 140
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside and rebounded
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 29, 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 1980360021709 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.