Serious A427 crash in North Northamptonshire on 4 May 2018 at 18:00 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire at 18:00 on Friday 4 May 2018. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 4 May 2018
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49288, longitude -0.76334, in the LE16 postcode district. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018340C03421
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 427
- 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
- 71%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 29%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1987.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 7 May 1987
19 m awayRef 198734AC00270
Slight
Daihatsu Terios crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 10 September 2001
79 m awayRef 200134NC00505
Slight
Car crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 21 November 1987
91 m awayRef 198734AC00832
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 17 October 1993
103 m awayRef 199334NC00615
Serious
Car crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 17 December 1995
133 m awayRef 199534NC06320
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 17 June 2007
143 m awayRef 200734NC30907
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2018340C03421 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2018.