A11 crash in Norwich on 23 December 2018 at 16:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and an Alexander Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the A11 in Norwich at 16:00 on Sunday 23 December 2018. A 69-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61912, longitude 1.28176, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town Close, Norwich, NR2 2AX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018360818042
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1995.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A11 in Norwich, 31 May 1995
16 m awayRef 199536N950611
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Norwich, 14 January 1989
25 m awayRef 1989360010092
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A11 in Norwich, 12 December 2008
29 m awayRef 2008360049904
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A11 in Norwich, 27 August 2020
30 m awayRef 2020360982291
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A11 in Norwich, 13 February 2003
47 m awayRef 200336T030062
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Norwich, 13 May 1997
49 m awayRef 199736N970533
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018360818042 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 2018.