Serious unclassified road crash in Norwich NR2 on 14 August 1987 at 16:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Norwich at 16:20 on Friday 14 August 1987. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 1987
- Friday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62756, longitude 1.28572, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987360011558
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 147
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 slight injury crash on 30 April 1993.
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A147 in Norwich, 30 April 1993
At the same spotRef 1993360010813
Serious
Car crash on the A147 in Norwich, 14 September 1989
At the same spotRef 1989360012045
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A147 in Norwich, 9 April 2013
10 m awayRef 2013360070688
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A147 in Norwich, 29 October 2019
10 m awayRef 2019360919874
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A147 in Norwich, 21 March 1990
10 m awayRef 1990360010595
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A147 in Norwich, 3 December 2002
10 m awayRef 2002360013455
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, 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 1987360011558 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.