A4300 crash in North Northamptonshire on 30 November 1998 at 14:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire at 14:25 on Monday 30 November 1998. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1998
- Monday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40242, longitude -0.72633, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. The location was in the former Kettering district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834NC00712
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4300
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6900
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 30 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198134AK00806
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6900 in North Northamptonshire, 28 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200334NC03315
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 20 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199034AK01063
Serious
Car crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 13 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198434AK00185
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 13 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199034AK01150
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 1 December 2022
1 m awayRef 202234NNC8252
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 199834NC00712 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1998.