Overview
- The collision occurred just after 4.30pm on Tuesday, October 7, on Christchurch Road in Norwich’s Golden Triangle.
- A silver Renault Megane left the road and struck a wall, leaving the driver, a man in his 40s, in a life-threatening condition at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
- Three fire crews from Carrow, Earlham and Sprowston used hydraulic rescue equipment to release vehicle occupants and make the scene safe, departing at 4.52pm.
- Ambulance resources comprised an ambulance, a rapid response vehicle, an ambulance officer vehicle, a critical care paramedic car and the East Anglian Air Ambulance, with the patient transported by road.
- The road reopened at 6.25pm, and police are seeking witnesses to the crash or the car’s prior driving, quoting reference 322 of October 7.