A1078 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 19 December 1985 at 06:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 06:30 on Thursday 19 December 1985. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77425, longitude 0.43569, in the PE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of King's Lynn.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360051754
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1078
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 17 September 1990
10 m awayRef 1990360051642
Fatal
Car crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 31 October 1986
10 m awayRef 1986360051685
Slight
Car crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 4 September 1985
10 m awayRef 1985360051171
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 14 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199836K981328
Serious
Skoda Karoq crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 16 October 2025
20 m awayRef 2025361655390
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 15 October 1990
20 m awayRef 1990360051814
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1985360051754 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 1985.