A6 crash in North Northamptonshire on 23 July 1980 at 22:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6 in North Northamptonshire at 22:15 on Wednesday 23 July 1980. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1980
- Wednesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40967, longitude -0.75699, in the NN16 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
- 198034AK00541
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 23 April 2013.
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A14 in North Northamptonshire, 23 April 2013
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Serious
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 31 January 1983
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Serious
Car crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire, 5 August 1987
20 m awayRef 198734AK00666
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A14 in North Northamptonshire, 26 February 2014
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A14 in North Northamptonshire, 31 July 1997
30 m awayRef 199734TC00419
Fatal
Renault Trafic crash on the A14 in North Northamptonshire, 29 November 2013
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198034AK00541 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 1980.