A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 20 December 2004 at 16:15 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 16:15 on Monday 20 December 2004. The 56-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2004
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22049, longitude -0.8766, in the NN4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nene Valley, West Northamptonshire, NN4 7PN area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Northampton district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434NN06801
- 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
- 45
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 45
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 10 November 1987
22 m awayRef 198734BS01937
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 15 January 2008
41 m awayRef 200834WN03038
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 19 August 1985
42 m awayRef 198534BS01182
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 13 September 2005
51 m awayRef 200534NN04244
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 22 October 2025
52 m awayRef 2025340WN5952
Serious
Yamaha BWS 125 crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 5 December 2015
56 m awayRef 201534WN31685
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200434NN06801 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.