A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 July 1985 at 18:40 involving a van
A van and two cars were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 18:40 on Monday 15 July 1985. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 1985
- Monday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Van and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23801, longitude -1.05541, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534BD01022
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1982.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 4 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198234DD00399
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 20 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025340WN5912
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 16 September 1988
14 m awayRef 198834BD01126
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 June 1991
14 m awayRef 199134ND00474
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198834BD01569
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 November 2014
15 m awayRef 201434WD31494
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 198534BD01022 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 1985.