C road crash in Norwich NR1 on 17 September 2003 at 20:32 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara crashed on a C road in Norwich at 20:32 on Wednesday 17 September 2003. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2003
- Wednesday, 20:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62492, longitude 1.29548, in the NR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mancroft, Norwich, NR2 1TW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003360018639
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 March 1988.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 29 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988360010640
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 28 November 1985
At the same spotRef 1985360012118
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 21 June 1985
20 m awayRef 1985360010968
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 25 February 1989
20 m awayRef 1989360010475
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 19 September 1987
20 m awayRef 1987360011828
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on a C road in Norwich, 20 November 1992
20 m awayRef 1992360012339
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 2003360018639 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 2003.