Serious A1122 crash in Breckland on 26 March 2012 at 20:40 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A1122 in Breckland at 20:40 on Monday 26 March 2012. The 32-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 was seriously injured and the 58-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Mar 2012
- Monday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65329, longitude 0.60821, 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
- 2012360065059
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2000.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 13 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200036K000999
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 8 February 2019
174 m awayRef 2019360820580
Slight
Datsun 120 crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 30 July 1990
175 m awayRef 1990360051351
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 9 September 1997
224 m awayRef 199736K971004
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 23 June 2025
225 m awayRef 2025361607077
Serious
Kia Ceed crash on the A1122 in Breckland, 12 October 2025
235 m awayRef 2025361653447
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 2012360065059 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 2012.