C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN6 on 3 February 1998 at 17:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 17:35 on Tuesday 3 February 1998. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38394, longitude -1.03467, in the NN6 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834ND00073
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2023.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 18 February 2005
20 m awayRef 200534ND00820
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 3 February 2022
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Slight
MG ZS crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 12 November 2025
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Slight
Nissan Pulsar crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 1 April 2022
186 m awayRef 202234WNC2262
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 14 September 2015
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199834ND00073 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 1998.