C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN7 on 20 December 1983 at 18:40 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 18:40 on Tuesday 20 December 1983. The 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17977, longitude -0.86432, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198334BS02012
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2003.
Slight
Nissan 100 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 3 February 2003
28 m awayRef 200334ND00087
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 25 November 1982
36 m awayRef 198234DT01249
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 7 September 1985
92 m awayRef 198534BS01302
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 2 May 1992
114 m awayRef 199234NS00563
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 25 March 2009
135 m awayRef 200934TS80099
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 13 January 1983
142 m awayRef 198334BS00049
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198334BS02012 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.