Serious A147 crash in Norwich on 22 September 1983 at 21:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A147 in Norwich at 21:15 on Thursday 22 September 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62206, longitude 1.29594, in the NR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983360011517
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 147
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A147 in Norwich, 29 November 1988
At the same spotRef 1988360012611
Serious
Car crash on the A147 in Norwich, 25 August 1984
At the same spotRef 1984360011350
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the A147 in Norwich, 20 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008360049928
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 29 February 2024
4 m awayRef 2024361415599
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 5 August 2023
5 m awayRef 2023361343613
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A147 in Norwich, 24 June 1995
10 m awayRef 199536T950375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1983360011517 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.