Unclassified road crash in Broadland NR7 on 12 December 2017 at 09:05 involving a Wrightbus Streetdeck
A Wrightbus Streetdeck and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Broadland at 09:05 on Tuesday 12 December 2017. The 48-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Wrightbus Streetdeck and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6598, longitude 1.33462, in the NR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sprowston East, Broadland, NR7 8AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Broadland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017360256274
- Council area
- Broadland
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Other
- 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%
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Streetdeck
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2017360256274 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broadland road accident statistics for 2017.