A4500 crash in West Northamptonshire on 15 November 1985 at 14:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire at 14:25 on Friday 15 November 1985. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 1985
- Friday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24236, longitude -0.87488, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534BN01147
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4500
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2001.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 23 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200134NN01253
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 3 September 1983
At the same spotRef 198334BS01311
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 13 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199134NN00833
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 11 May 2014
2 m awayRef 201434WN11234
Slight
Car crash on the A4500 in West Northamptonshire, 15 October 2024
5 m awayRef 2024340WN5492
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 7 December 2021
7 m awayRef 202134WNC7051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198534BN01147 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.