Serious B1436 crash in North Norfolk on 12 April 2014 at 11:25 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk at 11:25 on Saturday 12 April 2014. The 20-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87948, longitude 1.31677, in the NR11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014360079462
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1436
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2007.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 1 March 2007
12 m awayRef 200736T070052
Slight
Car crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 29 October 1985
68 m awayRef 1985360021989
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 13 August 2004
103 m awayRef 200436T040182
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 11 March 2007
103 m awayRef 2007360040526
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 14 July 1995
103 m awayRef 199536G950407
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1436 in North Norfolk, 14 April 1994
112 m awayRef 1994360020427
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2014360079462 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 2014.