B526 crash in West Northamptonshire on 6 June 1985 at 11:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the B526 in West Northamptonshire at 11:25 on Thursday 6 June 1985. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1985
- Thursday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17444, longitude -0.80655, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198534BS00787
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 526
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 19 October 2013
22 m awayRef 201334WS23793
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 5 October 2006
51 m awayRef 200634WS05381
Slight
Car crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 7 May 2021
80 m awayRef 202134WNC2391
Serious
Car crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 28 July 1983
81 m awayRef 198334BS01148
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 28 February 1982
81 m awayRef 198234DT00213
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B526 in West Northamptonshire, 2 September 1995
100 m awayRef 199534NN05537
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 198534BS00787 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.