A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 7 November 1997 at 14:02 involving a car
A car crashed on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 14:02 on Friday 7 November 1997. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1997
- Friday, 14:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24506, longitude -1.14314, in the NN11 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199734ND00580
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2002.
Slight
Nissan Patrol crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 27 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200234ND00761
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 28 November 2019
28 m awayRef 2019340D09991
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 2 July 2000
41 m awayRef 200034ND00356
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 5 March 2021
42 m awayRef 202134WNC1511
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 28 July 1990
45 m awayRef 199034BD00646
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 3 August 2023
47 m awayRef 2023340WN4302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199734ND00580 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 1997.