A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 28 March 1990 at 17:20 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 17:20 on Wednesday 28 March 1990. The 25-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1990
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23684, longitude -1.10171, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199034BD00294
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2022.
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MAN crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 May 2022
8 m awayRef 202234WNC3162
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Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 26 October 1981
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Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 19 December 1993
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Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 23 December 1997
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Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 17 November 1987
10 m awayRef 198734BD01598
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 6 August 1998
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199034BD00294 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1990.