Serious C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN6 on 24 March 1983 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 19:30 on Thursday 24 March 1983. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Mar 1983
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29042, longitude -1.08949, in the NN6 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198334BD00390
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 18 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201334WD05763
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 5 March 1987
20 m awayRef 198734BD00257
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 2 December 1985
28 m awayRef 198534BD01707
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 13 April 1996
73 m awayRef 199634ND00175
Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 9 May 1998
89 m awayRef 199834ND00224
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 14 February 1987
104 m awayRef 198734BD00169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198334BD00390 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.