Serious A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 August 2004 at 20:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 20:15 on Sunday 15 August 2004. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2004
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12968, longitude -0.98582, in the NN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Towcester. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434ND03970
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 74%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 26%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 September 2005.
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Serious
Renault 25 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 30 May 2001
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Slight
Lorry crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 20 June 1985
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Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 1 July 2021
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Serious
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 25 August 1989
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Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 27 January 2020
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200434ND03970 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.