A143 crash in Great Yarmouth on 2 July 2007 at 16:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A143 in Great Yarmouth at 16:45 on Monday 2 July 2007. The 77-year-old male driver and a 54-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2007
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53729, longitude 1.62802, in the NR31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Great Yarmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200736T070156
- Council area
- Great Yarmouth
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1995.
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 1 November 1995
30 m awayRef 199536G950678
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 19 August 1994
124 m awayRef 1994360020904
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 21 October 1986
126 m awayRef 1986360021970
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 20 December 1999
133 m awayRef 199936G991117
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 20 August 2010
133 m awayRef 2010360057851
Serious
Car crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 27 April 1989
153 m awayRef 1989360020775
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200736T070156 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Great Yarmouth road accident statistics for 2007.