B1146 crash in North Norfolk on 23 October 1990 at 21:05 involving a Saab 9000
A Saab 9000 and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk at 21:05 on Tuesday 23 October 1990. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra and the 18-year-old male driver of the Saab 9000 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 1990
- Tuesday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9000 and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82626, longitude 0.84238, in the NR21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fakenham.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990360022221
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1995.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9000
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9000)
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 1990360022221 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 1990.