C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN14 on 15 May 2008 at 15:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 15:25 on Thursday 15 May 2008. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2008
- Thursday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44215, longitude -0.80667, in the NN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Desborough. 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
- 200834WS22948
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 26 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198734AK00816
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 30 January 2002
14 m awayRef 200234NC00089
Fatal
Honda CB125TD crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 28 January 1992
22 m awayRef 199234TK00114
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 28 October 1984
50 m awayRef 198434AK00789
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 28 December 1980
63 m awayRef 198034AK00992
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 15 March 1985
122 m awayRef 198534AK00229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200834WS22948 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.