C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN11 on 15 April 2017 at 21:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 21:00 on Saturday 15 April 2017. The 31-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 and a 28-year-old male passenger in the Audi A3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27442, longitude -1.10268, in the NN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Buckby, West Northamptonshire, NN11 2EH 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
- 201734WD03817
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 6 May 2006
3 m awayRef 200634WD02497
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 15 October 1990
3 m awayRef 199034BD00879
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 29 August 2008
3 m awayRef 200834TD40568
Serious
Vauxhall crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 10 June 1990
3 m awayRef 199034BD00514
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 28 March 2007
3 m awayRef 200734WD14437
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 21 September 2015
7 m awayRef 201534WD24005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201734WD03817 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.