A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 23 December 2002 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a Chrysler Voyager were involved in a crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 14:30 on Monday 23 December 2002. The 32-year-old male driver of the Chrysler Voyager and a 42-year-old female passenger in the Chrysler Voyager were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2002
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and Chrysler Voyager
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25104, longitude -0.93208, in the NN5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dallington Spencer, West Northamptonshire, NN5 7HR 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
- 200234NN03090
- 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
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1998.
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199834NN00170
Slight
Van crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 26 August 1981
At the same spotRef 198134CS00496
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 8 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199934NN00935
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 11 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199534TN05623
Serious
Car crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 18 February 1981
At the same spotRef 198134CS00110
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 30 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200334NN05170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Chrysler Voyager
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chrysler Voyager)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chrysler Voyager)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200234NN03090 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 2002.