A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 18 August 2017 at 19:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 19:30 on Friday 18 August 2017. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2017
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24091, longitude -0.92021, 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
- 201734WN06497
- 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
- 4500
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 2014.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 30 March 2014
2 m awayRef 201434WN07834
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 9 May 1990
3 m awayRef 199034BS00714
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 4 August 2001
3 m awayRef 200134NN00942
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 17 July 2005
3 m awayRef 200534NN03471
Serious
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 20 March 1984
3 m awayRef 198434BS00385
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 28 July 2024
3 m awayRef 2024340WN4102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 201734WN06497 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.