A140 crash in Norwich on 5 December 2002 at 23:34 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A140 in Norwich at 23:34 on Thursday 5 December 2002. The 54-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62224, longitude 1.26232, in the NR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nelson, Norwich, NR2 3JF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002360013623
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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 28 September 2001.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A140 in Norwich, 28 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200136N011679
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A140 in Norwich, 29 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199636T960679
Slight
Volvo S70 crash on the A140 in Norwich, 5 January 2004
10 m awayRef 2004360021259
Slight
Mercedes 500 crash on the A47 in Norwich, 25 January 1990
10 m awayRef 1990360010174
Slight
Car crash on the A140 in Norwich, 5 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200236N020196
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A140 in Norwich, 18 December 2025
13 m awayRef 2025361685095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2002360013623 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 2002.