A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 21 December 2001 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 19:00 on Friday 21 December 2001. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2001
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15938, longitude -0.89816, in the NN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Roade. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackleton & Roade, West Northamptonshire, NN7 2LW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200134ND00780
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1993.
Slight
Van crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 20 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199334NS01591
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 30 September 2019
5 m awayRef 2019340S07721
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 18 February 2016
9 m awayRef 201634WS04206
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 2 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200134ND00620
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 15 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199634ND00133
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 25 May 1990
10 m awayRef 199034BS00785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200134ND00780 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 2001.