A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 3 November 2004 at 15:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf van
A Volkswagen Golf van and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 15:05 on Wednesday 3 November 2004. The 56-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2004
- Wednesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21921, longitude -1.05844, in the NN7 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
- 200434ND05563
- 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
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 24 July 1979
22 m awayRef 197934DD00461
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 1 October 2006
32 m awayRef 200634WD05288
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 19 December 1995
100 m awayRef 199534ND05504
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 20 July 2007
208 m awayRef 200734WD35497
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 10 May 2022
234 m awayRef 202234WNC9052
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 31 May 2011
256 m awayRef 201134WD18331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200434ND05563 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.