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A6116 crash in North Northamptonshire on 29 September 1979 at 21:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire at 21:40 on Saturday 29 September 1979. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Sep 1979
Saturday, 21:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49494, longitude -0.68624, in the NN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Corby. 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
197934AC00392
Council area
North Northamptonshire
Police force
Northamptonshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6116
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    57 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 197934AC00392 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 1979.