C road crash in West Northamptonshire LE16 on 11 July 1980 at 18:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 18:30 on Friday 11 July 1980. The 31-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
- 11 Jul 1980
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42362, longitude -0.89483, in the LE16 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
- 198034DD00571
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 34 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2020.
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 6 December 2020
34 m awayRef 2020340D08742
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 22 December 1979
112 m awayRef 197934DD00918
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 5 March 1991
269 m awayRef 199134BS00495
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 2 May 1987
275 m awayRef 198734BS00725
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 17 October 1992
479 m awayRef 199234NS01246
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 8 May 1995
500 m awayRef 199534ND05052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198034DD00571 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.