Serious A6 crash in North Northamptonshire on 21 August 2000 at 10:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a van were involved in a crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire at 10:20 on Monday 21 August 2000. A 52-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Ford Mondeo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2000
- Monday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2603, longitude -0.56686, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200034TW00455
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 22 October 1980.
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 22 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198034BR00559
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 17 December 2024
12 m awayRef 2024340NN4592
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 12 October 1987
32 m awayRef 198734AW01259
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 29 August 2012
36 m awayRef 201234NE21312
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 15 November 2025
38 m awayRef 2025340NN4902
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 21 February 2006
42 m awayRef 200634NW00853
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200034TW00455 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 2000.