A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 14 December 2003 at 21:05 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno crashed on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 21:05 on Sunday 14 December 2003. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37577, longitude -1.18468, in the CV23 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200334ND05261
- 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
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 129 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 February 2014.
Serious
Volvo crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 27 February 2014
129 m awayRef 201434WD04684
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 27 October 2019
167 m awayRef 2019340D07911
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 12 November 2015
169 m awayRef 201534TD80245
Fatal
Car crash on the A5 in Rugby, 30 September 1983
220 m awayRef 1983238301414
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 11 November 2007
251 m awayRef 200734WD55687
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 24 August 2023
281 m awayRef 2023340WN4662
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
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 200334ND05261 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 2003.