Unclassified road crash in North Northamptonshire NN17 on 19 October 1985 at 20:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire at 20:30 on Saturday 19 October 1985. A 25-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49093, longitude -0.68091, in the NN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Corby. The location was in the former Corby district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534AC00747
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 13 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198534AC00874
Slight
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40 m awayRef 198434AC00307
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 7 August 2005
94 m awayRef 200534NC03744
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 22 January 1979
100 m awayRef 197934AC00043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 198534AC00747 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.