Serious B576 crash in North Northamptonshire on 21 December 2019 at 12:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B576 in North Northamptonshire at 12:30 on Saturday 21 December 2019. A 4-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and an 8-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4422, longitude -0.82212, in the NN14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Desborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Desborough, North Northamptonshire, NN14 2NA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Kettering district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019340K08301
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 576
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 69%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 31%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B576 in North Northamptonshire, 7 December 2015
3 m awayRef 201534NK32795
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 7 January 2001
7 m awayRef 200134NC00012
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 16 April 1988
12 m awayRef 198834AK00593
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 18 September 1987
20 m awayRef 198734AK00790
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 27 September 1988
20 m awayRef 198834AK00875
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 5 June 1991
20 m awayRef 199134NK00399
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2019340K08301 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 2019.