A1074 crash in Norwich on 6 October 2004 at 18:45 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A1074 in Norwich at 18:45 on Wednesday 6 October 2004. The 40-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class 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
- 6 Oct 2004
- Wednesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64159, longitude 1.23227, in the NR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bowthorpe, Norwich, NR5 8TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200436T040230
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1074
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2017.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 6 June 2017
12 m awayRef 2017360196797
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 22 September 2016
21 m awayRef 2016360114854
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 28 March 2007
32 m awayRef 200736T070071
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1074 in South Norfolk, 19 October 2011
36 m awayRef 2011360063154
Serious
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 24 July 2025
36 m awayRef 2025361620468
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A1074 in South Norfolk, 28 January 2006
45 m awayRef 2006360033860
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 200436T040230 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.