Fatal A1101 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 4 May 2009 at 17:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 17:00 on Monday 4 May 2009. The 19-year-old female driver was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 4 May 2009
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52509, longitude 0.24766, in the PE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009360051579
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 5 November 2003
14 m awayRef 2003360019644
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 21 December 2013
14 m awayRef 2013360077130
Serious
Van crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 8 August 1988
22 m awayRef 1988360051386
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 14 December 1990
22 m awayRef 1990360052259
Fatal
Saab 9-3 crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 4 May 2022
42 m awayRef 2022361172698
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A1101 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 26 September 1998
140 m awayRef 199836K981240
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Submerged in water
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2009360051579 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 2009.