C road crash in North Northamptonshire NN15 on 5 August 1985 at 07:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire at 07:40 on Monday 5 August 1985. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1985
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36771, longitude -0.69281, in the NN15 postcode district. The location was in the former Kettering district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534AK00601
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2001.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 8 May 2001
20 m awayRef 200134NC00254
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 4 May 1993
28 m awayRef 199334NK00257
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 24 November 1987
45 m awayRef 198734AK01024
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 10 August 1988
64 m awayRef 198834AK00726
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 17 December 1996
73 m awayRef 199634NC00882
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 26 November 1988
103 m awayRef 198834AK01104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198534AK00601 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.