Serious A149 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 19 December 2000 at 17:00 involving a Daihatsu Charade
A Daihatsu Charade and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 17:00 on Tuesday 19 December 2000. The 28-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daihatsu Charade and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9259, longitude 0.49691, in the PE36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200036K001954
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 149
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 August 2018.
Serious
Honda crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 5 August 2018
12 m awayRef 2018360318757
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 27 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200136K011878
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 28 August 1988
42 m awayRef 1988360051524
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 20 July 2017
77 m awayRef 2017360202436
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 15 October 2000
92 m awayRef 200036K001527
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 14 July 1990
108 m awayRef 1990360051240
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu Charade
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 28, on vehicle 2 (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 200036K001954 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.