C road crash in Norwich NR5 on 16 December 2000 at 11:30 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on a C road in Norwich at 11:30 on Saturday 16 December 2000. A 70-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63792, longitude 1.23156, in the NR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200036N002134
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1991.
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Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Norwich, 1 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991360011596
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 23 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985360011370
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Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Norwich, 16 September 1998
20 m awayRef 199836T980638
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 11 January 1986
36 m awayRef 1986360010066
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Ford Escort crash on a C road in Norwich, 11 May 1994
45 m awayRef 1994360010941
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Ford Transit crash on a C road in Norwich, 7 December 2000
51 m awayRef 200036N002096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200036N002134 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 2000.