A1065 crash in Breckland on 12 October 2019 at 16:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A1065 in Breckland at 16:55 on Saturday 12 October 2019. The 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2019
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56534, longitude 0.68651, in the IP26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019360889405
- 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
- 1065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 87 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 7 July 1988
87 m awayRef 1988360051175
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 9 June 1993
161 m awayRef 1993360050987
Serious
Car crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 10 November 1986
239 m awayRef 1986360051737
Slight
Mazda crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 6 November 2016
254 m awayRef 2016360130986
Serious
MAN crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 24 November 2005
283 m awayRef 2005360032642
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 20 September 2007
299 m awayRef 2007360043328
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2019360889405 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 2019.