Part of the A47 close to Hockering, where two people were killed in a crash on Saturday. Picture: Matthew Usher.
Third crash in six days on A47 at Hockering
David Freezer
Thursday, March 14, 2013
7:38 AM
There has been another crash at the A47 accident black spot at Hockering this morning, the third in the last six days.
Emergency services were called to the junction with Sandy Lane at around 6.15am, following a crash involving two cars.
Fire engines from Carrow, Dereham and Earlham all attended because of smoke coming from one of the cars, although weren’t required to do anything at the scene in the end.
The cars were moved to the side of the road by 6.30am and debris in the road was cleared by 7am, allowing delays in both directions of the A47 to ease.
An East of England Ambulance service rapid response vehicle attended and a man in his 40s was examined and found to have no injuries.
The crash was on the same single-carriageway stretch of the A47 at Hockering where a mother and daughter from Little Fransham were killed, around 200m from the junction with Low Road, on Saturday afternoon.
Billie-Jean Roberts, 48, and her daughter Annie Huizar, 19, were killed when their white Ford Ka was in collision with a Mercedes CLX at around 3.50pm.
While five people were also injured after a crash involving two cars and a van on the same single-carriageway stretch of the A47 at Hockering, just before 11am yesterday.
Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries and three people treated and discharged at the scene.
- For more about the spate of crashes at the A47 accident black spot, see the links at the top-right of this page.
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4 comments
Perhaps due to health & safety with immediate effect should the Highways Agency impose a no overtaking from Easton roundabout to Swaffham excluding the dual carriageway through Dereham for over taking but with a speed restriction of 40 miles per hour - until something can be realistically sorted out before more people die on our roads.
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Lisa Johnstone
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Accident at Sandy Lane junction could have been due to icy road conditions and driver(s) not allowing for this. Happens so often.
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Christopher Neave
Thursday, March 14, 2013
It's not the road, but the idiots who drive along there. Perhaps cameras (speed or CCTV) placed along the road and at accident blackspots, would concentrate peoples minds a little more
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"V"
Thursday, March 14, 2013
It's not the road that is at fault, it's the idiots who drive these high powered cars who think they are abouve the law and race to get ahead before it gets into a single lane. Perhaps if there were cameras (either speed or CCTV), then the purportrators could be taken to court and their cars crushed.
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"V"
Thursday, March 14, 2013