A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 18 December 2019 at 19:20 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 19:20 on Wednesday 18 December 2019. A 28-year-old female passenger in the van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23805, longitude -1.08119, in the NN7 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
- 2019340D10251
- 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
- 5
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 45
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 10 March 2022
18 m awayRef 202234WNC1612
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 9 June 2025
19 m awayRef 2025340WN3442
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 19 June 2025
20 m awayRef 2025340WN3202
Fatal
Honda crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 7 July 1997
33 m awayRef 199734TD08362
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 20 August 2025
62 m awayRef 2025340WN4802
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 18 June 2005
63 m awayRef 200534ND02725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 2019340D10251 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 2019.