A140 crash in Broadland on 17 December 1982 at 20:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A140 in Broadland at 20:15 on Friday 17 December 1982. A 16-year-old male passenger 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: 17 Dec 1982; Friday, 20:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1982360011979
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
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
17 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1982360011979 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 1982.