Serious A1122 crash in Breckland on 18 June 2002 at 23:30 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A1122 in Breckland at 23:30 on Tuesday 18 June 2002. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2002
- Tuesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65478, longitude 0.61421, in the PE37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002360010191
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1122
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 May 2013.
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 29 May 2013
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 6 August 2001
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Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 15 April 1992
22 m awayRef 1992360050595
Fatal
Audi Coupe crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 23 November 2000
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 20 June 1999
76 m awayRef 199936K990799
Serious
Kia Ceed crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 12 October 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2002360010191 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 2002.