Unclassified road crash in Norwich NR1 on 3 October 2003 at 11:02 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Norwich at 11:02 on Friday 3 October 2003. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2003
- Friday, 11:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61584, longitude 1.28549, in the NR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town Close, Norwich, NR1 3SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003360019012
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 14 September 1984
At the same spotRef 1984360011485
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 23 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984360011762
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 2 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199936N991127
Serious
Kia Ceed crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 6 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025361650922
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 5 June 2000
20 m awayRef 200036T000227
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 6 March 2003
20 m awayRef 2003360015193
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2003360019012 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.