Serious C road crash in Broadland on 26 December 1981 at 11:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Broadland at 11:10 on Saturday 26 December 1981. All four casualties were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 1981
- Saturday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981360021649
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1981360021649 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.