A4256 crash in West Northamptonshire on 5 April 2017 at 20:45 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series hit a pedestrian on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire at 20:45 on Wednesday 5 April 2017. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25968, longitude -1.16705, in the NN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daventry South, West Northamptonshire, NN11 4GF area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201734WD02427
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4256
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 16 December 2016.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 16 December 2016
4 m awayRef 201634WD15196
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 6 June 1997
5 m awayRef 199734ND00258
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 31 July 1998
5 m awayRef 199834ND00414
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 14 May 2020
15 m awayRef 2020340D02042
Serious
Car crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 5 October 2012
19 m awayRef 201234WD25392
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 26 October 2014
34 m awayRef 201434WD26844
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201734WD02427 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.