Serious unclassified road crash in West Northamptonshire NN3 on 20 April 2000 at 12:45 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire at 12:45 on Thursday 20 April 2000. A 2-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Apr 2000
- Thursday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27302, longitude -0.84171, in the NN3 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200034NN00442
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2014.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 16 October 2014
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 16 February 1999
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 15 December 2000
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Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 8 May 1985
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 24 October 2001
40 m awayRef 200134NN01276
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 6 November 1992
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200034NN00442 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.