A5199 crash in West Northamptonshire on 9 December 2018 at 20:40 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a car were involved in a crash on the A5199 in West Northamptonshire at 20:40 on Sunday 9 December 2018. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes Vito van was 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
- 9 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38519, longitude -1.02542, in the NN6 postcode district. 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
- 2018340D09221
- 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
- 5199
- 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
- C
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 April 2019.
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A5199 in West Northamptonshire, 28 April 2019
2 m awayRef 2019340D01731
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5199 in West Northamptonshire, 16 August 2025
2 m awayRef 2025340WN4512
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A50 in West Northamptonshire, 29 December 1993
5 m awayRef 199334NS01628
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A5199 in West Northamptonshire, 9 August 2014
5 m awayRef 201434WD19304
Serious
Audi 80 crash on the A50 in West Northamptonshire, 12 August 1999
7 m awayRef 199934ND00489
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A5199 in West Northamptonshire, 19 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024340WN6342
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018340D09221 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 2018.