M1 crash in West Northamptonshire on 30 September 2015 at 19:30 involving a goods vehicle
A goods vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire at 19:30 on Wednesday 30 September 2015. The 27-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27526, longitude -1.09358, in the NN11 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201534TM25265
- 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
- 50 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, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2002.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 2 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200234TM00380
Serious
Lorry crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 11 May 1983
13 m awayRef 198334BD00604
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 13 October 2012
20 m awayRef 201234TM25772
Fatal
Lorry crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 27 August 1982
21 m awayRef 198234DD00753
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 1 February 1995
21 m awayRef 199534TD00074
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the M1 in West Northamptonshire, 16 February 2021
28 m awayRef 202134WNC0541
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201534TM25265 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 2015.