A4300 crash in North Northamptonshire on 20 October 2005 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire at 15:50 on Thursday 20 October 2005. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2005
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40531, longitude -0.74798, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter, North Northamptonshire, NN16 8FX area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Kettering district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200534NC04987
- 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
- 4300
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5323
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 1 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198934AK00974
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 3 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199234NK00781
Slight
Volvo crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 7 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199134NK00570
Slight
Audi TTS crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 4 August 2025
3 m awayRef 2025340NN3222
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 29 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199834NC00629
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 21 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199134NK00952
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200534NC04987 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 2005.