Serious A5095 crash in West Northamptonshire on 26 December 2013 at 19:45 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A5095 in West Northamptonshire at 19:45 on Thursday 26 December 2013. The 66-year-old female driver of the Ford Fusion was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24964, longitude -0.86898, in the NN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abington & Phippsville, West Northamptonshire, NN3 2HU 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201334WN31263
- 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
- 5095
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4500
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 70%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 30%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1989.
Slight
Minibus crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198934BN01082
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 4 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198934BS05085
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 29 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198434BN00945
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5095 in West Northamptonshire, 15 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199234NN01101
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 11 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199034BN00982
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 7 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200734WN21477
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
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 201334WN31263 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 2013.