A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 20 December 1985 at 19:08 involving a car
A car crashed on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 19:08 on Friday 20 December 1985. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1985
- Friday, 19:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25979, longitude -1.17802, in the NN11 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
- 198534BD01823
- 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
- 60 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1997.
Slight
Scania crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 29 July 1997
28 m awayRef 199734ND00363
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 1 June 1982
42 m awayRef 198234DD00463
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 16 December 1984
58 m awayRef 198434BD01877
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 10 April 2005
64 m awayRef 200534ND01751
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 11 November 2016
70 m awayRef 201634WD13556
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 20 June 2004
71 m awayRef 200434ND03042
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 198534BD01823 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.