A5123 crash in West Northamptonshire on 12 December 2005 at 16:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Rover 25 were involved in a crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire at 16:30 on Monday 12 December 2005. A 24-year-old male passenger in the Rover 25 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2005
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23544, longitude -0.88881, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200534NN06454
- 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
- 5123
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 25 July 1980.
Slight
Van crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 25 July 1980
At the same spotRef 198034CN00736
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 16 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200034NN00297
Slight
Car crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 23 May 2023
12 m awayRef 2023340WN3342
Serious
Car crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 19 January 1981
14 m awayRef 198134CS00038
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 20 January 2002
14 m awayRef 200234NN00067
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 2 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200534NN05916
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 25)
- 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 200534NN06454 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.