A47 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 7 December 2015 at 16:40 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, a Citroen DS3 and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 16:40 on Monday 7 December 2015. The 48-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and the 18-year-old female driver of the Citroen DS3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2015
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64812, longitude 0.17365, in the PE14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Emneth & Outwell, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE14 0DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015360096076
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1101
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2007.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 13 May 2007
5 m awayRef 2007360041353
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 26 September 2014
6 m awayRef 2014360084076
Fatal
Audi S4 crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 15 January 2023
9 m awayRef 2023361263550
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 1 March 2005
11 m awayRef 2005360028103
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 14 May 2005
11 m awayRef 2005360029343
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A47 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 23 May 2010
11 m awayRef 2010360056710
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen DS3)
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 2015360096076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 2015.