A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 20 October 2004 at 15:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 15:40 on Wednesday 20 October 2004. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2004
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10126, longitude -0.88456, in the NN12 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434ND05245
- 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
- 508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1998.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 24 March 1998
28 m awayRef 199834ND00152
Slight
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 24 November 1984
81 m awayRef 198434BD01753
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 21 January 1991
81 m awayRef 199134BD00085
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 11 December 1996
94 m awayRef 199634TD00859
Slight
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 16 March 1979
117 m awayRef 197934DT00232
Serious
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 22 October 1980
121 m awayRef 198034DT01030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200434ND05245 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.