Serious C road crash in Broadland NR10 on 5 October 2008 at 20:05 involving a Lexus IS250
A Lexus IS250 crashed on a C road in Broadland at 20:05 on Sunday 5 October 2008. The 27-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Oct 2008
- Sunday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus IS250
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68152, longitude 1.24232, in the NR10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drayton North, Broadland, NR10 3AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008360048786
- Council area
- Broadland
- 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
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2014.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on a C road in Broadland, 4 July 2014
23 m awayRef 2014360081796
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Broadland, 4 November 1992
28 m awayRef 1992360012192
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Broadland, 4 August 2003
28 m awayRef 2003360017843
Slight
Norton crash on a C road in Broadland, 20 December 1991
36 m awayRef 1991360012724
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Broadland, 1 September 2005
57 m awayRef 2005360031292
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 7 September 2018
93 m awayRef 2018360332027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS250
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus IS250)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus IS250)
- 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 2008360048786 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broadland road accident statistics for 2008.