A361 crash in West Northamptonshire on 5 February 1983 at 17:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A361 in West Northamptonshire at 17:10 on Saturday 5 February 1983. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 1983
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24026, longitude -1.17619, in the NN11 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
- 198334BD00146
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 15 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200134ND00654
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 16 October 2013
10 m awayRef 201334WD24393
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 6 December 1981
14 m awayRef 198134DD01155
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 31 July 1996
14 m awayRef 199634ND00396
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 7 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199934ND00801
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 9 April 1986
28 m awayRef 198634BD00508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198334BD00146 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 1983.