A5123 crash in West Northamptonshire on 4 March 2025 at 16:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire at 16:20 on Tuesday 4 March 2025. The 19-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i30 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2422, longitude -0.88587, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, West Northamptonshire, NN1 4HS area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Northampton district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025340WN1302
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5123
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2011.
Slight
Bus crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 10 March 2011
1 m awayRef 201134WN09031
Serious
Volvo crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 18 May 2009
1 m awayRef 200934WN20489
Slight
Car crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 14 June 2014
13 m awayRef 201434WN14284
Serious
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 21 November 1981
13 m awayRef 198134CN01157
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 29 July 1983
13 m awayRef 198334BN00674
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 6 October 1979
21 m awayRef 197934CN00735
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025340WN1302 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 2025.