Serious B1147 crash in Breckland on 25 November 2004 at 23:27 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B1147 in Breckland at 23:27 on Thursday 25 November 2004. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 34-year-old male driver 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
- 25 Nov 2004
- Thursday, 23:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69436, longitude 0.98631, in the NR20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004360026438
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1147
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 152 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2008.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 30 October 2008
152 m awayRef 200836T080203
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 16 February 2008
152 m awayRef 2008360045623
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Breckland, 16 December 1991
156 m awayRef 1991360052087
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 11 January 2018
159 m awayRef 2018360263426
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Breckland, 21 December 2025
162 m awayRef 2025361686353
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on a C road in Breckland, 3 March 1991
171 m awayRef 1991360050429
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 2004360026438 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 2004.