Serious A1074 crash in Norwich on 30 December 2014 at 20:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A1074 in Norwich at 20:50 on Tuesday 30 December 2014. The 37-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.639, longitude 1.24286, in the NR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bowthorpe, Norwich, NR5 8TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014360086850
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1074
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 21 June 2015
2 m awayRef 2015360091284
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 23 July 2025
2 m awayRef 2025361620020
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 21 January 2015
4 m awayRef 2015360087299
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 13 August 1996
6 m awayRef 199636T960541
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 16 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003360020469
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 17 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003360020523
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 2014360086850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 2014.