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Serious A147 crash in Norwich on 24 April 1987 at 15:05 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on the A147 in Norwich at 15:05 on Friday 24 April 1987. The 13-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Apr 1987
Friday, 15:05
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62579, longitude 1.2878, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.

Map of where the crash happened in Norwich

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987360010777
Council area
Norwich
Police force
Norfolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
147
Road type
Dual 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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 August 2013.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    13 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 1987360010777 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 1987.