Serious B1108 crash in South Norfolk on 1 August 1990 at 07:00 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on the B1108 in South Norfolk at 07:00 on Wednesday 1 August 1990. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Aug 1990
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61113, longitude 1.0806, in the NR9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990360011610
- Council area
- South Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1108
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2010.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 1990360011610 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Norfolk road accident statistics for 1990.