Serious A6116 crash in North Northamptonshire on 21 November 1985 at 13:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire at 13:40 on Thursday 21 November 1985. The 40-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50186, longitude -0.69414, in the NN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Corby. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534AC00810
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6116
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2001.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 27 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200134NC00591
Serious
Car crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 24 May 1985
30 m awayRef 198534AC00346
Slight
Keeway K-Light crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 6 August 2025
40 m awayRef 2025340NN3242
Slight
Car crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 27 July 1980
40 m awayRef 198034AC00316
Serious
Car crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 13 March 1983
41 m awayRef 198334AC00128
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 2 March 2015
45 m awayRef 201534NC05315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, 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 198534AC00810 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.