A148 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 18 May 2000 at 16:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Derbi Senda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 16:40 on Thursday 18 May 2000. The 22-year-old male rider of the Derbi Senda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2000
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Derbi Senda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75626, longitude 0.4036, in the PE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of King's Lynn.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200036K000711
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 148
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 6 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002360013596
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 5 November 2021
11 m awayRef 2021361136855
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 2 January 2021
16 m awayRef 2021361015525
Slight
Ford Tourneo Connect crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 6 October 2025
17 m awayRef 2025361650987
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Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 1 February 2018
18 m awayRef 2018360270330
Slight
Car crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 8 December 1987
28 m awayRef 1987360052199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Derbi Senda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Derbi Senda)
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 200036K000711 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 2000.