A427 crash in North Northamptonshire on 28 October 1985 at 07:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire at 07:55 on Monday 28 October 1985. The 60-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 1985
- Monday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49573, longitude -0.65293, in the NN18 postcode district. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534AC00744
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 427
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 43
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 April 1991.
Serious
Leyland crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 13 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199134AC00247
Slight
Car crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 20 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198534AC00410
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 27 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200634NK04162
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A43 in North Northamptonshire, 3 September 2018
16 m awayRef 2018340C06591
Serious
Citroen Relay crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 18 December 2021
17 m awayRef 202134NNC7191
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 5 April 2025
17 m awayRef 2025340NN1712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 60, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198534AC00744 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1985.