A149 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 11 February 2003 at 02:30 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX crashed on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 02:30 on Tuesday 11 February 2003. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2003
- Tuesday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74265, longitude 0.40552, in the PE30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. Margaret's with St. Nicholas, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 5RD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003360014682
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 10 December 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 10 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200136K012217
Slight
Citroen C25 crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 25 October 1990
20 m awayRef 1990360051875
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 1 September 2000
20 m awayRef 200036K001246
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 11 November 1995
22 m awayRef 199536T950753
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 6 December 1985
30 m awayRef 1985360051682
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A149 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 3 February 1993
32 m awayRef 1993360050186
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen ZX)
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 2003360014682 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 2003.