A149 crash in North Norfolk on 20 September 2007 at 16:30 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A149 in North Norfolk at 16:30 on Thursday 20 September 2007. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82418, longitude 1.37662, in the NR28 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Walsham.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007360043362
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 149
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2009.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 3 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009360052983
Slight
Scania crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 13 April 2002
14 m awayRef 200236G020294
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 15 November 2012
14 m awayRef 2012360067990
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 31 January 1997
30 m awayRef 199736G970065
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 8 February 1991
45 m awayRef 1991360020278
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 20 November 2024
48 m awayRef 2024361518592
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2007360043362 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 2007.