Serious A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 17 December 2005 at 17:15 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 17:15 on Saturday 17 December 2005. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24041, longitude -0.89147, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, West Northamptonshire, NN1 2DN 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
- 200534NN06281
- 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
- 4500
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 76%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 24%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 September 2002.
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 28 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200234NN02238
Serious
Car crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 29 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198334BN00281
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 3 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199734NN00150
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 13 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199934NN00326
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 11 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200934WN38509
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 22 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200934WN44529
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200534NN06281 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.