Serious A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 12 August 2005 at 10:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 10:55 on Friday 12 August 2005. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Aug 2005
- Friday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24144, longitude -0.91517, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dallington Spencer, West Northamptonshire, NN5 5EW 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200534NN04153
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4500
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 71%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 29%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2023.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 December 2023
5 m awayRef 2023340WN7132
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4300 in West Northamptonshire, 30 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200834WN40178
Slight
Minibus crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 17 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199934NN00727
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 November 1988
10 m awayRef 198834BS01987
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 30 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199634NN00910
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199734NN00453
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200534NN04153 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.