A143 crash in South Norfolk on 27 October 2012 at 09:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A143 in South Norfolk at 09:30 on Saturday 27 October 2012. The 68-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39983, longitude 1.31351, in the IP20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201236T120179
- 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
- 60 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 20 July 2013
22 m awayRef 2013360072920
Serious
Car crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 7 August 1984
41 m awayRef 1984360021280
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 2 September 2025
114 m awayRef 2025361636306
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 24 September 2024
123 m awayRef 2024361495259
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 24 November 1993
200 m awayRef 1993360052320
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 27 August 1988
350 m awayRef 1988360021654
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201236T120179 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.