C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN11 on 27 July 1980 at 00:50 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 00:50 on Sunday 27 July 1980. The 31-year-old male driver and a 32-year-old male passenger were 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
- 27 Jul 1980
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18677, longitude -1.17645, in the NN11 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198034DD00605
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 192 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 12 November 1982
192 m awayRef 198234DD01078
Serious
Honda Civic crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 13 August 2004
263 m awayRef 200434ND04051
Slight
Van crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 10 September 1985
295 m awayRef 198534BD01314
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 17 February 2020
316 m awayRef 2020340S02552
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 7 February 2018
317 m awayRef 2018340D01331
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 6 September 2019
321 m awayRef 2019340D06901
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
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 198034DD00605 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.