A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 December 2001 at 09:10 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75 and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 09:10 on Saturday 15 December 2001. The 28-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2001
- Saturday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 75 and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23682, longitude -0.90093, 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 2DN 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
- 200134NN01514
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 21 October 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 21 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200234NN02541
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 22 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200334NN02684
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 30 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200634WN05096
Slight
Bus crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 8 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198034CS00741
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 2 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199834NN01259
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 5 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199034BN00638
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 200134NN01514 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.