A43 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 March 1980 at 03:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A43 in West Northamptonshire at 03:50 on Saturday 15 March 1980. A 34-year-old female passenger 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
- 15 Mar 1980
- Saturday, 03:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23267, longitude -0.90603, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198034CS00148
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 43
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 December 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 2 December 1979
40 m awayRef 197934CS00612
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 1 May 1980
50 m awayRef 198034CS00244
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 17 December 1979
51 m awayRef 197934CS00657
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 27 November 1987
142 m awayRef 198734BS02080
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 28 May 2011
150 m awayRef 201134WN19441
Serious
Mini One crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 5 December 2017
154 m awayRef 201734WN10397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198034CS00148 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 1980.