A45 crash in North Northamptonshire on 22 April 1998 at 08:10 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire at 08:10 on Wednesday 22 April 1998. The 25-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 1998
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Carlton and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30147, longitude -0.616, in the NN10 postcode district. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834TW00210
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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 11 February 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 11 February 1994
22 m awayRef 199434TW00381
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 15 March 2023
24 m awayRef 2023340NN0922
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 9 August 2025
27 m awayRef 2025340NN3602
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 16 November 1992
30 m awayRef 199234TW01027
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 9 April 2002
30 m awayRef 200234TW00320
Serious
Reliant Robin crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 26 May 1990
36 m awayRef 199034AW00633
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 199834TW00210 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.