A148 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 4 August 2025 at 11:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 11:20 on Monday 4 August 2025. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2025
- Monday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77839, longitude 0.46876, in the PE30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the The Woottons, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 3HQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025361624550
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 148
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2015.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 3 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015360090137
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 15 September 2019
6 m awayRef 2019360904553
Slight
Freight Rover crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 22 August 1993
6 m awayRef 1993360051542
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 19 December 2005
8 m awayRef 2005360033169
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 22 October 2000
8 m awayRef 200036K001585
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A148 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 19 December 2002
8 m awayRef 2002360013751
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2025361624550 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 2025.