Unclassified road crash in Breckland PE37 on 17 October 2007 at 09:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Breckland at 09:10 on Wednesday 17 October 2007. All four casualties were 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
- 17 Oct 2007
- Wednesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63017, longitude 0.75181, in the PE37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007360043728
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 250 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Breckland, 11 September 1983
250 m awayRef 1983360051188
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on a C road in Breckland, 6 March 2007
320 m awayRef 2007360040387
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Breckland, 22 June 2008
344 m awayRef 2008360047298
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Breckland, 20 July 2017
367 m awayRef 2017360209519
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Breckland, 5 June 1985
405 m awayRef 1985360050694
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Breckland, 1 July 2000
410 m awayRef 200036K000953
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2007360043728 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Breckland road accident statistics for 2007.