C road crash in North Northamptonshire NN18 on 27 November 1981 at 09:05 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire at 09:05 on Friday 27 November 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1981
- Friday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48587, longitude -0.71125, in the NN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Corby. The location was in the former Corby district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198134AC00529
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 2007.
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Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 22 December 1983
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Slight
Scooter crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 5 September 1987
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Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 28 June 2025
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 18 October 2002
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 18 March 2012
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 198134AC00529 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 1981.