A43 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 April 1982 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A43 in West Northamptonshire at 23:00 on Thursday 15 April 1982. The 24-year-old male rider and a 26-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1982
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29179, longitude -0.8358, in the NN6 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198234DD00370
- 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
- 40 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 17 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198334BS01761
Slight
Volvo crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 29 July 2008
22 m awayRef 200834WN35498
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 21 December 2007
28 m awayRef 200734WD64577
Fatal
Car crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 31 October 1984
50 m awayRef 198434BS01534
Serious
Scania crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 30 July 2006
81 m awayRef 200634WD04244
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A43 in West Northamptonshire, 14 June 2008
103 m awayRef 200834TD28268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198234DD00370 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 1982.