B1135 crash in Breckland on 11 June 1997 at 16:30 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird and an Alfa Romeo GTV were involved in a crash on the B1135 in Breckland at 16:30 on Wednesday 11 June 1997. The 66-year-old male driver of the Nissan Bluebird was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Bluebird and Alfa Romeo GTV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62974, longitude 0.97919, in the NR9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199736T970440
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1135
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2000.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 27 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200036K000905
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 21 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199636K960286
Serious
Car crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 22 February 1988
10 m awayRef 1988360050369
Slight
Car crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 2 March 1992
22 m awayRef 1992360050374
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 30 March 1990
22 m awayRef 1990360050545
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1135 in Breckland, 11 November 1993
67 m awayRef 1993360052244
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo GTV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,492 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
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 199736T970440 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 1997.