Serious A149 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 10 June 2001 at 03:40 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 03:40 on Sunday 10 June 2001. The 32-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jun 2001
- Sunday, 03:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92871, longitude 0.49573, in the PE36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200136K010989
- 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
- 149
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 20 April 2013
10 m awayRef 2013360070888
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 21 September 1983
22 m awayRef 1983360051252
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 17 July 1983
30 m awayRef 1983360050915
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 27 November 1989
32 m awayRef 1989360052259
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 30 August 1995
36 m awayRef 199536K950957
Slight
Volkswagen ID3 crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 19 January 2022
39 m awayRef 2022361151887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200136K010989 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 2001.