A1078 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 31 May 2017 at 15:03 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 hit a pedestrian on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 15:03 on Wednesday 31 May 2017. A 64-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2017
- Wednesday, 15:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76299, longitude 0.40051, in the PE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of King's Lynn. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Lynn, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 2NQ 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
- 2017360193548
- 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
- 1078
- Road type
- Single 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, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1991.
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 17 January 1991
48 m awayRef 1991360050136
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 5 January 1991
48 m awayRef 1991360050019
Slight
Car crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 29 October 1989
85 m awayRef 1989360051994
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 21 March 2017
89 m awayRef 2017360171016
Serious
Electric motorcycle crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 21 December 2020
91 m awayRef 2020361013904
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1078 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 17 April 1995
96 m awayRef 199536K950384
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017360193548 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 2017.