A140 crash in Norwich on 5 April 2011 at 08:20 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A140 in Norwich at 08:20 on Tuesday 5 April 2011. The 30-year-old male driver of the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2011
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65653, longitude 1.27759, in the NR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Catton Grove, Norwich, NR3 3SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201136T110057
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1402
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
- 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 18 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Norwich, 18 November 1989
At the same spotRef 1989360012694
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 12 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008360045467
Slight
Ford Grand C-Max crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 17 February 2020
3 m awayRef 2020360937543
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1042 in Norwich, 16 December 2014
3 m awayRef 2014360086556
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A140 in Norwich, 24 September 2014
4 m awayRef 2014360084063
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Norwich, 18 June 1985
10 m awayRef 1985360010932
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
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 201136T110057 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 2011.