B4036 crash in West Northamptonshire on 31 January 2020 at 08:45 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and an Audi A1 were involved in a crash on the B4036 in West Northamptonshire at 08:45 on Friday 31 January 2020. The 22-year-old female driver of the Audi A1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2020
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28172, longitude -1.11086, in the NN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Buckby, West Northamptonshire, NN11 2EH area accident hotspot. 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
- 2020340D02402
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4036
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 2025.
Serious
BMW G 310 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 13 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025340WN7142
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 18 April 2008
11 m awayRef 200834WD18788
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 12 March 1979
12 m awayRef 197934DD00177
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 25 September 2020
16 m awayRef 2020340D06162
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 17 November 2014
17 m awayRef 201434WD29304
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 5 September 2007
17 m awayRef 200734WD47937
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A1)
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 2020340D02402 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 2020.