B4031 crash in West Northamptonshire on 6 November 1983 at 22:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire at 22:20 on Sunday 6 November 1983. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1983
- Sunday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9977, longitude -1.13913, in the NN13 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198334BD01461
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4031
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 13 October 1983
At the same spotRef 198334BD01376
Serious
Car crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 17 September 1989
20 m awayRef 198934BD01059
Fatal
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 28 June 2021
21 m awayRef 202134WNC9051
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 5 June 1991
22 m awayRef 199134ND00449
Slight
Morris Minor crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 15 September 1991
30 m awayRef 199134ND00703
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 17 January 2004
51 m awayRef 200434ND00303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 198334BD01461 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.