Serious A605 crash in North Northamptonshire on 1 December 1986 at 04:40 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire at 04:40 on Monday 1 December 1986. The 30-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 1986
- Monday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634AC00876
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 605
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, 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 198634AC00876 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1986.