Serious C road crash in Breckland IP24 on 16 September 2005 at 23:21 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Breckland at 23:21 on Friday 16 September 2005. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2005
- Friday, 23:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41854, longitude 0.74949, in the IP24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thetford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thetford Castle, Breckland, IP24 2HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005360031399
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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%
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005360031399 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 2005.