A6003 crash in North Northamptonshire on 24 December 2004 at 04:55 involving a MAN lorry
A MAN lorry crashed on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire at 04:55 on Friday 24 December 2004. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2004
- Friday, 04:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42091, longitude -0.7271, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kettering North, North Northamptonshire, NN16 9JP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Kettering district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434NC06866
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6003
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 43
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 15 January 2015
9 m awayRef 201534NK00935
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 8 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200534NC03122
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 28 March 2025
12 m awayRef 2025340NN1222
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 4 November 2001
14 m awayRef 200134NC00603
Serious
Car crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 12 May 1979
14 m awayRef 197934AK00306
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 19 July 2004
14 m awayRef 200434NC03528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (MAN)
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 200434NC06866 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2004.