A149 crash in North Norfolk on 17 December 2003 at 20:05 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 crashed on the A149 in North Norfolk at 20:05 on Wednesday 17 December 2003. The 18-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7745, longitude 1.49898, in the NR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003360020432
- Council area
- North 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
- 50 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1159
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 4 June 2009
At the same spotRef 2009360052120
Serious
Skoda Felicia crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 26 August 2011
At the same spotRef 2011360062401
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 27 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023361302305
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 10 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007360044759
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 1 August 2010
10 m awayRef 2010360057610
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 7 October 2006
10 m awayRef 2006360037841
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
- 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 2003360020432 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 2003.