B5346 crash in West Northamptonshire on 5 March 2000 at 22:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire at 22:15 on Sunday 5 March 2000. The 38-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 5 Mar 2000
- Sunday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24705, longitude -0.88032, in the NN1 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
- 200034NN00284
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5346
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1988.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 16 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198834BN00692
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 11 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199434NN00029
Slight
Car crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 17 August 1980
22 m awayRef 198034CN00795
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 20 November 2025
23 m awayRef 2025340WN6512
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 13 July 2016
37 m awayRef 201634WN09366
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5346 in West Northamptonshire, 24 June 1993
40 m awayRef 199334NN00552
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200034NN00284 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 2000.