A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 14 December 1997 at 02:10 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 02:10 on Sunday 14 December 1997. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1997
- Sunday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24062, longitude -0.91916, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199734TN00749
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4500
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 2 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200134NN00275
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 19 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198034CS00608
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 27 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198634BS01590
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 13 April 2022
8 m awayRef 202234WNC2622
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199434NS01102
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 22 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198634BS01382
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199734TN00749 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.