A1065 crash in Breckland on 6 May 2025 at 14:43 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a Fiat Ducato were involved in a crash on the A1065 in Breckland at 14:43 on Tuesday 6 May 2025. The 44-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van and a 43-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Ducato were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2025
- Tuesday, 14:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and Fiat Ducato
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65197, longitude 0.68851, in the PE37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swaffham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swaffham, Breckland, PE37 7AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025361586355
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2019.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 15 February 2019
15 m awayRef 2019360821590
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 27 December 2000
21 m awayRef 200036K002010
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 12 December 1997
31 m awayRef 199736T970948
Slight
Van crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 15 April 1998
39 m awayRef 199836K980403
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Breckland, 17 April 2024
47 m awayRef 2024361432707
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1065 in Breckland, 27 February 2007
49 m awayRef 2007360040174
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Fiat Ducato
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Emergency vehicle (blue light) on response
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Ducato)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025361586355 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 2025.