A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 25 February 2015 at 07:46 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic, an Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Frontera were involved in a crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 07:46 on Wednesday 25 February 2015. The 59-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic, an 8-year-old male passenger in the Audi A4 and the 51-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Frontera were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2015
- Wednesday, 07:46
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Civic and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30597, longitude -1.12799, in the NN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Buckby, West Northamptonshire, NN6 7UB area accident hotspot. 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
- 201534WD04855
- 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
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2022.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 24 November 2022
1 m awayRef 202234WNC7632
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 5 September 2024
1 m awayRef 2024340WN4732
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 24 February 2015
3 m awayRef 201534WD04765
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 14 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024340WN4872
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 2 September 2019
4 m awayRef 2019340D07331
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 26 November 1996
4 m awayRef 199634ND00637
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Frontera)
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 201534WD04855 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.