A1074 crash in Norwich on 28 March 2007 at 16:50 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A1074 in Norwich at 16:50 on Wednesday 28 March 2007. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort, a 1-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort and a 1-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2007
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64169, longitude 1.23183, 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
- 200736T070071
- 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
- 1074
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2011.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1074 in South Norfolk, 19 October 2011
10 m awayRef 2011360063154
Serious
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 24 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025361620468
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A1074 in South Norfolk, 28 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006360033860
Slight
Car crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 12 May 2019
15 m awayRef 2019360843840
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 6 October 2004
32 m awayRef 200436T040230
Serious
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 5 December 2018
34 m awayRef 2018360350747
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200736T070071 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 2007.