A12 crash in Great Yarmouth on 16 May 2014 at 05:30 involving a Mercedes
A Mercedes crashed on the A12 in Great Yarmouth at 05:30 on Friday 16 May 2014. A 37-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2014
- Friday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56937, longitude 1.72578, in the NR31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorleston-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Magdalen, Great Yarmouth, NR31 7QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Great Yarmouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014360080423
- Council area
- Great Yarmouth
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2017.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A47 in Great Yarmouth, 15 August 2017
7 m awayRef 2017360213348
Slight
MG TF crash on the A12 in Great Yarmouth, 21 July 2006
14 m awayRef 200636T060114
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A47 in Great Yarmouth, 22 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025361686593
Slight
Minibus crash on the A12 in Great Yarmouth, 31 July 1999
27 m awayRef 199936G990634
Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A12 in Great Yarmouth, 16 July 2010
28 m awayRef 2010360057340
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A12 in Great Yarmouth, 17 September 2005
36 m awayRef 2005360031421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 2014360080423 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Great Yarmouth road accident statistics for 2014.