C road crash in Norwich NR2 on 29 December 2004 at 19:57 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Norwich at 19:57 on Wednesday 29 December 2004. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 19:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63056, longitude 1.29309, in the NR2 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
- 2004360027202
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2004.
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on a C road in Norwich, 19 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004360025762
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Norwich, 6 July 2003
10 m awayRef 2003360017244
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Norwich, 5 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008360045882
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 30 July 1985
10 m awayRef 1985360011206
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Norwich, 7 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002360013127
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Norwich, 11 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992360010459
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
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 2004360027202 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 2004.