Serious B1140 crash in Broadland on 18 August 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1140 in Broadland at 18:00 on Sunday 18 August 1985. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 14-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63387, longitude 1.54681, in the NR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360021458
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1140
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1140 in Broadland, 4 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199736G970623
Serious
Honda CM125C crash on the B1140 in Broadland, 15 June 1991
14 m awayRef 1991360021074
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 25 November 2019
64 m awayRef 2019360903454
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B1140 in Broadland, 2 December 1996
100 m awayRef 199636G960822
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 31 December 2007
130 m awayRef 2007360044939
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 11 October 2001
132 m awayRef 200136G012019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, 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 1985360021458 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.