A1122 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 17 December 1993 at 14:26 involving a Volvo 360
A car and a Volvo 360 were involved in a crash on the A1122 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 14:26 on Friday 17 December 1993. The 80-year-old male driver of the car and the 61-year-old male driver of the Volvo 360 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1993
- Friday, 14:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo 360
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60327, longitude 0.39399, in the PE38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Downham Market.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993360052521
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1122
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1993.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1122 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 15 December 1993
10 m awayRef 1993360052500
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A1122 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 23 April 1992
10 m awayRef 1992360050638
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on an unclassified road in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 7 February 2022
23 m awayRef 2022361140960
Slight
Car crash on the A1122 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 23 March 1983
81 m awayRef 1983360050408
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1122 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 4 June 1993
81 m awayRef 1993360050961
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 22 May 2019
84 m awayRef 2019360844392
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 360
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 360)
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 1993360052521 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 1993.