Serious unclassified road crash in Norwich NR4 on 19 April 1983 at 16:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Norwich at 16:05 on Tuesday 19 April 1983. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 1983
- Tuesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61319, longitude 1.27533, in the NR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983360010595
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1996.
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 25 November 1983
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Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 9 April 1990
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983360010595 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 1983.