Unclassified road crash in North Northamptonshire NN16 on 12 July 1979 at 19:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire at 19:10 on Thursday 12 July 1979. A 56-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 12 Jul 1979
- Thursday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40072, longitude -0.71903, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. The location was in the former Kettering district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197934AK00433
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2010.
Slight
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Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 15 July 2005
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Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 27 July 2024
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 22 February 1995
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 22 June 1988
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Fiat Tipo crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 15 April 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 197934AK00433 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.