A147 crash in Norwich on 21 April 2016 at 14:34 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van, a Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle and a BMW X6 were involved in a crash on the A147 in Norwich at 14:34 on Thursday 21 April 2016. A 36-year-old female passenger on the Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 14:34
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes Sprinter and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62584, longitude 1.28983, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mancroft, Norwich, NR2 1TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016360068437
- 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
- 147
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2016.
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A147 in Norwich, 16 December 2016
At the same spotRef 2016360143354
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 29 August 2016
1 m awayRef 2016360111847
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 2 July 2016
1 m awayRef 2016360085248
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 20 March 2019
64 m awayRef 2019360828503
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 3 April 2019
64 m awayRef 2019360832473
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 8 June 2022
71 m awayRef 2022361185829
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW X6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R6)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016360068437 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 2016.