A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 12 October 2007 at 14:00 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 14:00 on Friday 12 October 2007. The 33-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2007
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21518, longitude -0.89503, in the NN4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Far Cotton, Delapre & Briar Hill, West Northamptonshire, NN4 8BD 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
- 200734WN53757
- 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
- 508
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 45
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 10 August 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 10 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199034BS01181
Slight
Audi Coupe crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 1 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200834WN50548
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 22 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200534NN06328
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 17 June 2010
At the same spotRef 201034TN24250
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 16 July 2023
9 m awayRef 2023340WN4102
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 24 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201434WN07224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200734WN53757 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 2007.