A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 1 December 2016 at 17:16 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda SH125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 17:16 on Thursday 1 December 2016. The 24-year-old male rider of the Honda SH125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 17:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda SH125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23792, longitude -0.91325, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dallington Spencer, West Northamptonshire, NN5 5EW 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201634WN15646
- 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
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 29 October 2014
4 m awayRef 201434WN27204
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 July 2017
5 m awayRef 201734WN06677
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 September 1993
7 m awayRef 199334TS00838
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 11 December 2012
10 m awayRef 201234WN31522
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 July 1997
12 m awayRef 199734NN00779
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 26 February 1979
16 m awayRef 197934CS00092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda SH125
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda SH125)
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 201634WN15646 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.