A1270 crash in Broadland on 18 November 2018 at 00:34 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A1270 in Broadland at 00:34 on Sunday 18 November 2018. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2018
- Sunday, 00:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68594, longitude 1.29233, in the NR10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018360350115
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1270
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2022.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 28 February 2022
33 m awayRef 2022361154169
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 19 September 2023
38 m awayRef 2023361357367
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 12 July 2025
51 m awayRef 2025361615090
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 3 February 2018
53 m awayRef 2018360270582
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 26 June 2023
59 m awayRef 2023361322895
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1270 in Broadland, 18 June 2022
61 m awayRef 2022361207030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2018360350115 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 2018.