A361 crash in West Northamptonshire on 16 August 1979 at 12:00 involving a van
A van crashed on the A361 in West Northamptonshire at 12:00 on Thursday 16 August 1979. The 27-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 Aug 1979
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27976, longitude -1.16739, in the NN11 postcode district. 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
- 197934DD00503
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 June 1988.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 1 June 1988
32 m awayRef 198834BD00699
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 10 February 2024
43 m awayRef 2024340WN1152
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 1 March 2017
46 m awayRef 201734WD01077
Serious
Van crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 10 July 1981
61 m awayRef 198134DD00608
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 10 August 1987
71 m awayRef 198734BD01027
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 22 December 1995
81 m awayRef 199534ND05488
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 197934DD00503 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 1979.