C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN4 on 22 January 1981 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 17:15 on Thursday 22 January 1981. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1981
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22495, longitude -0.90651, in the NN4 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
- 198134CS00046
- Council area
- West 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2001.
Slight
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 20 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200134NN01222
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 23 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200534NN06431
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 9 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198534BS01637
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 1 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200934WN50879
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 24 March 2025
10 m awayRef 2025340WN1412
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 6 October 1981
14 m awayRef 198134CS00592
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198134CS00046 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 1981.