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Serious unclassified road crash in West Northamptonshire OX17 on 16 October 2016 at 03:55 involving an Audi A3

An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire at 03:55 on Sunday 16 October 2016. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Oct 2016
Sunday, 03:55
Vehicles
1
Audi A3
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15513, longitude -1.24073, in the OX17 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201634WD12526
Council area
West Northamptonshire
Police force
Northamptonshire
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Northamptonshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
73%
Estimated chance it was slight
27%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Audi A3

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    1,781 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)

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 201634WD12526 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 2016.