A1042 crash in Broadland on 6 December 1992 at 02:55 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and two cars were involved in a crash on the A1042 in Broadland at 02:55 on Sunday 6 December 1992. The 32-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 1992
- Sunday, 02:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65439, longitude 1.29453, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992360012438
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 February 1996.
Serious
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 12 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199636N960193
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Broadland, 5 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987360010319
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A1042 in Broadland, 9 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199636N961183
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 12 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199636T960828
Slight
Car crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 27 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199536T950067
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A1042 in Broadland, 31 December 1993
At the same spotRef 1993360012769
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 1992360012438 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 1992.