Serious C road crash in Broadland NR13 on 14 December 2011 at 07:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on a C road in Broadland at 07:00 on Wednesday 14 December 2011. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo was seriously injured and a 16-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Combo and the 33-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58947, longitude 1.54476, in the NR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011360063864
- Council area
- Broadland
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 179 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1995.
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Broadland, 20 November 1995
179 m awayRef 199536T950781
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Broadland, 30 January 1983
251 m awayRef 1983360020146
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Broadland, 13 November 1995
332 m awayRef 199536G950710
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Broadland, 2 January 1995
389 m awayRef 199536T950009
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 11 September 1988
479 m awayRef 1988360021773
Slight
Gilera Dna 50 crash on an unclassified road in Broadland, 20 November 2001
484 m awayRef 200136G012190
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2011360063864 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broadland road accident statistics for 2011.