B4038 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 August 1983 at 08:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire at 08:05 on Monday 15 August 1983. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 1983
- Monday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34349, longitude -1.19145, in the CV23 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
- 198334BD01085
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4038
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2001.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 10 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200134ND00319
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 4 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200334ND04392
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 6 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199934ND00740
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 10 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025340WN2392
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 1 June 2021
4 m awayRef 202134WNC2741
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 26 July 2021
5 m awayRef 202134WNC3451
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 198334BD01085 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.