A1074 crash in Norwich on 9 September 2020 at 15:05 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A1074 in Norwich at 15:05 on Wednesday 9 September 2020. The 46-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2020
- Wednesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Sharan and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63669, longitude 1.26346, in the NR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nelson, Norwich, NR2 3BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Norwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020360983629
- 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
- 1074
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 9 December 2023
1 m awayRef 2023361384662
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 22 April 2023
1 m awayRef 2023361299669
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 2 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025361663042
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 9 June 2015
2 m awayRef 2015360091119
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 8 September 2021
2 m awayRef 2021361085769
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A1074 in Norwich, 20 February 2014
2 m awayRef 2014360078407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2020360983629 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 2020.