Serious A47 crash in Broadland on 25 December 1981 at 02:30 involving a van

A van crashed on the A47 in Broadland at 02:30 on Friday 25 December 1981. A 66-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1981; Friday, 02:30
Vehicles: 1; Van
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1981360021633
Council area: Broadland
Police force: Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 47
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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Entered ditch
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
56 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 66, 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 1981360021633 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 1981.