Serious A45 crash in North Northamptonshire on 21 November 2014 at 23:05 involving a Mazda CX5
A Mazda CX5 crashed on the A45 in North Northamptonshire at 23:05 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 31-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda CX5
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28923, longitude -0.6536, in the NN29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Irchester, North Northamptonshire, NN29 7BB area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Wellingborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201434NW29924
- 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
- 45
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 74%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 26%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2020.
Slight
Scania crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 7 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020340W05552
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 24 December 1991
5 m awayRef 199134NW06159
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 16 March 1993
5 m awayRef 199334TW00206
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 24 October 1991
5 m awayRef 199134NW05909
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 26 August 1994
5 m awayRef 199434TW00807
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in North Northamptonshire, 12 July 1991
5 m awayRef 199134NW05582
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda CX5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,191 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda CX5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda CX5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201434NW29924 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 2014.