C road crash in North Northamptonshire LE16 on 16 September 2025 at 14:50 involving a Tesla Model 3
A Tesla Model 3 crashed on a C road in North Northamptonshire at 14:50 on Tuesday 16 September 2025. The 61-year-old male driver was 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
- 16 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Tesla Model 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5209, longitude -0.86635, in the LE16 postcode district. The location was in the former Kettering district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025340NN4022
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 1998.
Serious
Mitsubishi crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 6 December 1998
26 m awayRef 199834NC00740
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 30 September 2009
109 m awayRef 200934NK41179
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 29 December 2016
265 m awayRef 201634NK15026
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 5 October 1980
435 m awayRef 198034AK00730
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 3 August 1981
455 m awayRef 198134AK00468
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 13 September 1984
715 m awayRef 198434AC00628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Tesla Model 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Tesla Model 3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025340NN4022 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 2025.