A45 crash in North Northamptonshire on 2 October 2004 at 16:00 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava, a Ford Focus and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire at 16:00 on Saturday 2 October 2004. A 44-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Brava was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2004
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Brava and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35444, longitude -0.54547, in the NN9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Raunds, North Northamptonshire, NN9 6UW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200434NW04856
- Council area
- North 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 2001.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 18 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200134TW00579
Slight
Ford crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 11 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200934NE19799
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 12 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199634TW00264
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 15 December 1998
32 m awayRef 199834TW00756
Serious
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 7 November 2025
40 m awayRef 2025340NN4572
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 30 September 2025
43 m awayRef 2025340NN3932
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,581 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200434NW04856 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2004.