Serious A149 crash in North Norfolk on 29 October 1990 at 21:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A149 in North Norfolk at 21:20 on Monday 29 October 1990. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Oct 1990
- Monday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92504, longitude 1.30286, in the NR27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cromer.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990360022308
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 149
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 13 January 2012.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 13 January 2012
14 m awayRef 2012360064285
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 26 November 2003
22 m awayRef 2003360020031
Serious
Bedford crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 18 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199736G970232
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 13 December 2017
28 m awayRef 2017360254641
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 30 August 1985
40 m awayRef 1985360021572
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in North Norfolk, 3 February 2023
43 m awayRef 2023361272472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 14, 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 1990360022308 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.