C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN7 on 23 March 2004 at 08:40 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 08:40 on Tuesday 23 March 2004. The 42-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2004
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26447, longitude -1.03008, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434ND01478
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 3 February 1990
10 m awayRef 199034BS00250
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Mazda 6 crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 25 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025340WN6632
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 2 October 1999
14 m awayRef 199934ND00619
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 9 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199534ND05259
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 18 June 2016
15 m awayRef 201634WD08606
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 29 November 2019
28 m awayRef 2019340D09931
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 200434ND01478 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 2004.