A4300 crash in North Northamptonshire on 1 November 2020 at 12:05 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire at 12:05 on Sunday 1 November 2020. The 18-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 31-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2020
- Sunday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46454, longitude -0.67416, in the NN18 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020340C07772
- 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
- 4300
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 1 August 1990
2 m awayRef 199034AC00536
Serious
Car crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 31 August 1987
16 m awayRef 198734AC00608
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 15 April 1999
21 m awayRef 199934NC00208
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 29 July 1981
21 m awayRef 198134AC00321
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 16 May 2022
25 m awayRef 202234NNC3152
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 17 July 1983
29 m awayRef 198334AC00412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2020340C07772 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 2020.