Serious A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 18 September 2018 at 13:53 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 13:53 on Tuesday 18 September 2018. The 45-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 2018
- Tuesday, 13:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25971, longitude -0.95162, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Duston, West Northamptonshire, NN5 6LT 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018340N06441
- 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
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 79%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 21%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1999.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 21 January 1999
2 m awayRef 199934NN00080
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 18 March 2017
3 m awayRef 201734WN02007
Slight
Tractor crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 1 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025340WN1842
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 4 July 1990
9 m awayRef 199034BS00984
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 2 September 2000
12 m awayRef 200034NN01042
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 8 August 2012
22 m awayRef 201234WN19522
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2018340N06441 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.