A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 3 December 2017 at 10:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 10:30 on Sunday 3 December 2017. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24189, longitude -0.87744, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, West Northamptonshire, NN1 4HS 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
- 201734WN10067
- 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
- Fine, 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 slight injury crash on 13 October 2018.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 13 October 2018
2 m awayRef 2018340N07471
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 5 January 2014
3 m awayRef 201434WN00294
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 19 January 2022
4 m awayRef 2022340WNC232
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 8 May 2010
6 m awayRef 201034TN18660
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 23 July 2001
6 m awayRef 200134NN00889
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 21 June 2002
6 m awayRef 200234NN00693
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 201734WN10067 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.