Serious A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 19 December 1995 at 22:41 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 22:41 on Tuesday 19 December 1995. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1995
- Tuesday, 22:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21852, longitude -1.05758, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199534ND05504
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 1 October 2006
71 m awayRef 200634WD05288
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 3 November 2004
100 m awayRef 200434ND05563
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 24 July 1979
106 m awayRef 197934DD00461
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 10 May 2022
134 m awayRef 202234WNC9052
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 31 May 2011
157 m awayRef 201134WD18331
Serious
Van crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 10 March 1987
177 m awayRef 198734BD00273
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 199534ND05504 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.