A149 crash in North Norfolk on 4 June 2008 at 14:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A149 in North Norfolk at 14:50 on Wednesday 4 June 2008. The 55-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94146, longitude 1.20487, in the NR26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheringham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheringham North, North Norfolk, NR26 8RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008360047048
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1157
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 3 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201036T100114
Slight
Bedford crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 6 February 1990
10 m awayRef 1990360020305
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 9 December 1989
14 m awayRef 1989360022576
Serious
Car crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 13 December 1984
14 m awayRef 1984360022243
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1157 in North Norfolk, 14 November 1991
20 m awayRef 1991360022142
Slight
Car crash on the A149 in North Norfolk, 19 October 2000
22 m awayRef 200036G000975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2008360047048 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 2008.