C road crash in Broadland on 31 December 1981 at 23:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Broadland at 23:40 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 61-year-old male driver and a 57-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981360021661
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1981360021661 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.