Serious C road crash in Broadland NR6 on 18 July 1985 at 22:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Broadland at 22:45 on Thursday 18 July 1985. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 1985
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66215, longitude 1.2676, in the NR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360011175
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Broadland, 11 December 2016
9 m awayRef 2016360142438
Serious
Yamaha FZS crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 4 December 2024
10 m awayRef 2024361535985
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Broadland, 9 December 1986
10 m awayRef 1986360012467
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Broadland, 24 October 2013
10 m awayRef 2013360075243
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Broadland, 18 October 2002
22 m awayRef 2002360012527
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Broadland, 4 July 1986
32 m awayRef 1986360011195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- 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
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1985360011175 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 1985.