Serious A1074 crash in Norwich on 10 May 2008 at 01:32 involving a Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle
A Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A1074 in Norwich at 01:32 on Saturday 10 May 2008. The 17-year-old male rider of the Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 2008
- Saturday, 01:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyosung GT 125 and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63306, longitude 1.28086, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nelson, Norwich, NR2 3BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008360046769
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 21 May 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 21 May 1994
At the same spotRef 1994360010978
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 20 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991360011036
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 26 June 2021
8 m awayRef 2021361091565
Slight
Honda NTV600K crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 27 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199736T970223
Slight
Car crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 23 September 1988
10 m awayRef 1988360012172
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 24 April 1987
10 m awayRef 1987360010773
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyosung GT 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Hyosung GT 125)
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 2008360046769 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 2008.