A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 16 August 1995 at 17:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A car and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 17:00 on Wednesday 16 August 1995. The 37-year-old female driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1995
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28552, longitude -1.20789, in the NN11 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199534ND05220
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 2 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200134ND00141
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 24 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199534ND05166
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 24 September 1993
14 m awayRef 199334ND00692
Slight
Bus crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 June 1989
50 m awayRef 198934BD00705
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 17 February 1989
54 m awayRef 198934BD00205
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 11 January 2014
60 m awayRef 201434WD00624
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 199534ND05220 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 1995.