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A149 crash in Great Yarmouth on 23 March 1983 at 20:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A149 in Great Yarmouth at 20:00 on Wednesday 23 March 1983. The 53-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Mar 1983
Wednesday, 20:00
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64999, longitude 1.7136, in the NR30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caister-on-Sea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983360020375
Council area
Great Yarmouth
Police force
Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
149
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
1064

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, lighting unknown
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 1987.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    53 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 1983360020375 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Great Yarmouth road accident statistics for 1983.