Serious A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 19 November 2004 at 17:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 17:00 on Friday 19 November 2004. The 17-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Nov 2004
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28174, longitude -1.11048, in the NN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Buckby, West Northamptonshire, NN11 2EH area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434ND05632
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2016.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 1 March 2016
1 m awayRef 201634WD06386
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 1 July 2020
5 m awayRef 2020340D03862
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 22 February 2023
8 m awayRef 2023340WN0632
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 11 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025340WN3802
Fatal
Volvo S60 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 30 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200934TD80209
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 15 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198934BD00534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200434ND05632 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.