Serious A1042 crash in Norwich on 8 May 2006 at 17:50 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A1042 in Norwich at 17:50 on Monday 8 May 2006. An 88-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2006
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63983, longitude 1.32809, in the NR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thorpe St Andrew North West, Broadland, NR7 9NE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006360035552
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 19 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199736T970864
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 6 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200136N011510
Serious
Car crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 23 December 2004
At the same spotRef 2004360027028
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A47 in Norwich, 29 October 1991
At the same spotRef 1991360012295
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A47 in Norwich, 25 February 1988
10 m awayRef 1988360010409
Serious
Volvo C30 crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 1 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024361393714
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- 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 2006360035552 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 2006.