Serious A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 6 March 2017 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 16:30 on Monday 6 March 2017. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Mar 2017
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33211, longitude -1.05792, in the NN6 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
- 201734WD01137
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 84%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 16%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 10 February 2006
30 m awayRef 200634ND00697
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 November 2022
36 m awayRef 202234WNC8032
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 15 June 1997
63 m awayRef 199734ND00282
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 19 May 2000
71 m awayRef 200034ND00272
Slight
Car crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 11 November 1984
101 m awayRef 198434BD01692
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 16 November 1988
101 m awayRef 198834BD01405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201734WD01137 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 2017.