Unclassified road crash in Norwich NR3 on 12 December 2017 at 14:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Norwich at 14:00 on Tuesday 12 December 2017. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63722, longitude 1.30757, in the NR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, NR1 4FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017360253290
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Frost or ice
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, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2012.
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Chevrolet Matiz crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 1 January 2012
37 m awayRef 2012360064114
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 26 May 2007
39 m awayRef 2007360041523
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 11 November 1983
59 m awayRef 1983360011863
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Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 1 April 2003
60 m awayRef 2003360015612
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Norwich, 26 January 1988
65 m awayRef 1988360010190
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A147 in Norwich, 1 February 2017
66 m awayRef 2017360160525
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 2017360253290 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 2017.