C road crash in North Norfolk NR12 on 21 March 1991 at 11:10 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 and a Ford Cortina were involved in a crash on a C road in North Norfolk at 11:10 on Thursday 21 March 1991. The 73-year-old male driver of the Ford Cortina and a 70-year-old female passenger in the Ford Cortina were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1991
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 5 and Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7816, longitude 1.50928, in the NR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991360020518
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Cortina)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Cortina)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1991360020518 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 1991.