B1146 crash in North Norfolk on 4 September 2023 at 21:24 involving a Volkswagen
A Volkswagen and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk at 21:24 on Monday 4 September 2023. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen and the 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2023
- Monday, 21:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82474, longitude 0.84033, in the NR21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the The Raynhams, North Norfolk, NR21 7JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023361353372
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, no street lighting
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk, 5 January 2018
At the same spotRef 2018360275819
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 6 May 2018
1 m awayRef 2018360296166
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk, 11 May 2024
2 m awayRef 2024361441636
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk, 6 January 2022
2 m awayRef 2022361133282
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk, 3 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025361664235
Serious
Sym Jet crash on the B1146 in North Norfolk, 17 April 2019
3 m awayRef 2019360837164
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023361353372 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 2023.