A1078 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 1 October 2004 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 19:30 on Friday 1 October 2004. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2004
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75735, longitude 0.39862, in the PE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of King's Lynn. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. Margaret's with St. Nicholas, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 1NS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004360025335
- 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
- 1078
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 1 February 2000
22 m awayRef 200036K000169
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 5 August 2020
27 m awayRef 2020360970300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 2 August 1983
32 m awayRef 1983360050985
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 21 March 2004
36 m awayRef 2004360021972
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 23 September 1999
42 m awayRef 199936K991264
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 25 May 2016
45 m awayRef 2016360076069
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2004360025335 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 2004.