Fatal A6 crash in North Northamptonshire on 10 June 2012 at 22:30 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the A6 in North Northamptonshire at 22:30 on Sunday 10 June 2012. The 54-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 10 Jun 2012
- Sunday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37271, longitude -0.66899, in the NN15 postcode district. The location was in the former Kettering district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201234TK80192
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 June 2020.
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Skoda Karoq crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 7 May 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 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 201234TK80192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2012.