A143 crash in South Norfolk on 15 September 2012 at 15:16 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A143 in South Norfolk at 15:16 on Saturday 15 September 2012. The 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 15:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53589, longitude 1.61802, in the NR31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012360067246
- Council area
- South Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 88 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2025.
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 6 October 2025
88 m awayRef 2025361650832
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 7 April 1992
95 m awayRef 1992360020642
Serious
Car crash on the A143 in Great Yarmouth, 8 May 1988
149 m awayRef 1988360020771
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in South Norfolk, 9 April 2012
170 m awayRef 2012360065304
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 4 June 2017
174 m awayRef 2017360187634
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 31 December 2018
178 m awayRef 2018360354944
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 803 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2012360067246 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Norfolk road accident statistics for 2012.