A4256 crash in West Northamptonshire on 8 November 2005 at 16:55 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire at 16:55 on Tuesday 8 November 2005. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2005
- Tuesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26088, longitude -1.15998, in the NN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daventry South, West Northamptonshire, NN11 4GF 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200534ND05599
- 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
- 4256
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4036
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 13 June 2018
4 m awayRef 2018340D04631
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 6 March 2020
13 m awayRef 2020340D01212
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 6 May 1981
14 m awayRef 198134DD00403
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 14 August 1988
14 m awayRef 198834BD01002
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 4 February 1989
20 m awayRef 198934BD00157
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 26 September 1994
20 m awayRef 199434ND00503
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200534ND05599 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 2005.