M1 crash in West Northamptonshire on 21 January 2008 at 05:40 involving a van
A van crashed on the M1 in West Northamptonshire at 05:40 on Monday 21 January 2008. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2008
- Monday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22748, longitude -1.00395, in the NN7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Campion, West Northamptonshire, NN7 4GP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200834TM03058
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 23 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200734TM65287
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 28 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200734TM36657
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 11 April 1996
22 m awayRef 199634TM00262
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 30 January 2014
24 m awayRef 201434TM04464
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 17 October 2019
27 m awayRef 2019340S09001
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 29 August 1986
30 m awayRef 198634BS01442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200834TM03058 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 2008.