A148 crash in North Norfolk on 13 August 2008 at 15:15 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Chrysler Voyager were involved in a crash on the A148 in North Norfolk at 15:15 on Wednesday 13 August 2008. The 42-year-old female driver of the Chrysler Voyager was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2008
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Chrysler Voyager
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84448, longitude 0.85387, in the NR21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lancaster North, North Norfolk, NR21 9QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008360048080
- 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
- 148
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 21 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200136K012320
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 30 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199936K991341
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 8 July 2011
At the same spotRef 2011360061808
Slight
JCB crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 23 September 2003
At the same spotRef 2003360018901
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 26 August 2019
41 m awayRef 2019360898311
Serious
Proton Wira crash on the A148 in North Norfolk, 6 August 2005
41 m awayRef 2005360030682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Chrysler Voyager
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chrysler Voyager)
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 2008360048080 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.