Serious B1108 crash in Breckland on 14 August 1994 at 23:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B1108 in Breckland at 23:05 on Sunday 14 August 1994. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 1994
- Sunday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55679, longitude 0.69878, in the IP26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994360051577
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1108
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2005.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 19 August 2005
14 m awayRef 2005360030902
Serious
Vauxhall Royale crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 8 April 1993
14 m awayRef 1993360050555
Slight
MG MGF crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 23 November 2002
22 m awayRef 2002360013606
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 3 February 2011
50 m awayRef 2011360059970
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 12 November 1994
51 m awayRef 199436K942036
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the B1108 in Breckland, 25 July 2017
59 m awayRef 2017360210509
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1994360051577 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Breckland road accident statistics for 1994.