A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 30 April 2001 at 18:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 18:00 on Monday 30 April 2001. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2001
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24206, longitude -0.87591, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, West Northamptonshire, NN1 4HS area accident hotspot. 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
- 200134NN00522
- 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
- 4500
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 9 October 1985.
Slight
Bus crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 9 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198534BN00988
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 28 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198634BN00833
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 16 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200134NN00349
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 18 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199134NN00837
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 12 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199634NN00614
Serious
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 26 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201034WN38380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200134NN00522 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.