Serious C road crash in Breckland NR19 on 6 November 2017 at 14:18 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA, a Mercedes A Class and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Breckland at 14:18 on Monday 6 November 2017. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2017
- Monday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford KA and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71087, longitude 0.86067, in the NR19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Breckland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017360240316
- Council area
- Breckland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2015.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on a C road in Breckland, 26 May 2015
3 m awayRef 2015360090672
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Breckland, 13 July 1999
12 m awayRef 199936T990344
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on a C road in Breckland, 10 December 2005
12 m awayRef 2005360032963
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Breckland, 17 July 2003
12 m awayRef 2003360017391
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Breckland, 7 August 2025
16 m awayRef 2025361626026
Serious
Leyland crash on a C road in Breckland, 24 January 1990
22 m awayRef 1990360050138
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 3 (Other vehicle)
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 2017360240316 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Breckland road accident statistics for 2017.