A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 10 November 2007 at 01:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 01:30 on Saturday 10 November 2007. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2007
- Saturday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23128, longitude -0.89595, 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 5BB 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
- 200734WN55677
- 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
- 508
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2021.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 11 May 2021
4 m awayRef 202134WNC2421
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 11 January 2025
5 m awayRef 2025340WN0202
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 20 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200734WN64147
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 16 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198434BN00518
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 25 March 1983
14 m awayRef 198334BN00252
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 25 July 1982
14 m awayRef 198234CS00471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- 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
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200734WN55677 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.