C road crash in North Norfolk NR28 on 1 December 2011 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on a C road in North Norfolk at 21:00 on Thursday 1 December 2011. The 16-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.86393, longitude 1.39591, in the NR28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011360063767
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2009.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 15 December 2009
20 m awayRef 2009360054829
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 7 June 2008
30 m awayRef 200836T080116
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 25 July 2013
41 m awayRef 2013360073047
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 6 August 1988
41 m awayRef 1988360021448
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 9 July 1983
61 m awayRef 1983360020947
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 21 July 2005
70 m awayRef 2005360030431
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2011360063767 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 2011.