Serious A146 crash in South Norfolk on 14 April 2007 at 18:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A146 in South Norfolk at 18:05 on Saturday 14 April 2007. A 50-year-old female passenger in the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54568, longitude 1.45609, in the NR14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007360040937
- Council area
- South Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- C
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 2 November 2012.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 2 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201236T120182
Slight
Lorry crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 2 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988360021420
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 13 August 1990
14 m awayRef 1990360021627
Serious
ERF crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 21 December 2006
14 m awayRef 2006360039271
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 18 August 2025
21 m awayRef 2025361630424
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 14 June 1993
36 m awayRef 1993360011091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2007360040937 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Norfolk road accident statistics for 2007.