A146 crash in South Norfolk on 11 December 2012 at 02:26 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A146 in South Norfolk at 02:26 on Tuesday 11 December 2012. The 19-year-old male driver, a 23-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 02:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52605, longitude 1.48464, in the NR14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201236T120215
- 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
- 146
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 98 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1991.
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 12 April 1991
98 m awayRef 1991360020672
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 18 October 1988
133 m awayRef 1988360022067
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 17 April 2014
156 m awayRef 2014360079642
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 26 September 2025
174 m awayRef 2025361647094
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 18 July 1992
211 m awayRef 1992360021242
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A146 in South Norfolk, 26 September 2020
235 m awayRef 2020360991605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201236T120215 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.