B1077 crash in Breckland on 23 September 2001 at 18:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Renault 19 were involved in a crash on the B1077 in Breckland at 18:35 on Sunday 23 September 2001. The 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Renault 19 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2001
- Sunday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Renault 19
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52015, longitude 1.02239, in the NR17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Attleborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe, Breckland, NR17 2EE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200136K011637
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1077
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Breckland, 11 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994360051413
Slight
Car crash on the B1077 in Breckland, 12 May 2005
22 m awayRef 200536T050090
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the B1077 in Breckland, 27 July 2024
74 m awayRef 2024361472819
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Breckland, 29 May 1999
81 m awayRef 199936T990249
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Breckland, 25 June 1984
92 m awayRef 1984360050814
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B1077 in Breckland, 25 November 2019
97 m awayRef 2019360926537
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 19)
- 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 200136K011637 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Breckland road accident statistics for 2001.