Serious A143 crash in South Norfolk on 27 September 2018 at 12:32 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A143 in South Norfolk at 12:32 on Thursday 27 September 2018. A 16-year-old female passenger and a 16-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Sep 2018
- Thursday, 12:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50827, longitude 1.57556, in the NR34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018360338453
- Council area
- South Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 484 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2004.
Slight
JCB crash on an unclassified road in South Norfolk, 21 September 2004
484 m awayRef 200436T040212
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 17 June 2000
540 m awayRef 200036G000510
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 15 February 1994
552 m awayRef 1994360020196
Slight
Porsche Taycan crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 6 November 2025
561 m awayRef 2025361664612
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 7 December 1996
574 m awayRef 199636T960888
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A143 in South Norfolk, 5 October 2001
598 m awayRef 200136G012001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018360338453 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Norfolk road accident statistics for 2018.