C road crash in Norwich NR1 on 18 September 1987 at 02:45 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Norwich at 02:45 on Friday 18 September 1987. A 21-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1987
- Friday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64151, longitude 1.31456, in the NR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987360011901
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 1 March 1986
14 m awayRef 1986360010378
Slight
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15 m awayRef 2014360083022
Slight
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16 m awayRef 2024361489374
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Norwich, 26 August 2014
18 m awayRef 2014360083060
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Norwich, 28 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200036T000162
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 24 June 1984
32 m awayRef 1984360010988
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1987360011901 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.