A5123 crash in West Northamptonshire on 20 December 1985 at 18:39 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire at 18:39 on Friday 20 December 1985. A 50-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 6-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1985
- Friday, 18:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23772, longitude -0.88789, in the NN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534BN01294
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5123
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 1994.
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 22 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199434NN00753
Slight
Scooter crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 26 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198134CN00277
Slight
Car crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 10 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198434BN00214
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 14 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199934NN01361
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 28 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201134WN26281
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A5123 in West Northamptonshire, 4 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200234NN02082
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198534BN01294 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.