C road crash in Breckland NR20 on 14 August 2012 at 14:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and an Iveco lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Breckland at 14:20 on Tuesday 14 August 2012. The 41-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 28-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Iveco
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72666, longitude 0.98926, in the NR20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012360066842
- Council area
- Breckland
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Breckland, 18 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199736T970882
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Breckland, 4 July 2008
32 m awayRef 2008360047440
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Breckland, 27 June 1993
45 m awayRef 1993360051117
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 24 October 2001
135 m awayRef 200136T010329
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 18 December 1991
166 m awayRef 1991360052102
Slight
Car crash on the B1147 in Breckland, 21 January 1989
171 m awayRef 1989360050143
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,882 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2012360066842 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Breckland road accident statistics for 2012.