A148 crash in North Norfolk on 8 December 1981 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A148 in North Norfolk at 15:45 on Tuesday 8 December 1981. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981360050992
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 148
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 1981360050992 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 1981.