C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN5 on 20 December 1983 at 21:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 21:00 on Tuesday 20 December 1983. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24706, longitude -0.95547, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198334BS02018
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1995.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 13 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199534NN05569
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 6 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199234NS00444
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 29 June 1983
10 m awayRef 198334BS00998
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 30 May 2012
36 m awayRef 201234WN13562
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 13 September 2007
36 m awayRef 200734WN45847
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 14 June 2015
59 m awayRef 201534WN14555
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198334BS02018 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.