Serious A6116 crash in North Northamptonshire on 5 December 1986 at 16:30 involving a car

A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire at 16:30 on Friday 5 December 1986. The 28-year-old male driver of the taxi was seriously injured. The location was in the former Corby district.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 5 Dec 1986; Friday, 16:30
Vehicles: 2; Car and taxi
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198634AC00882
Council area: North Northamptonshire
Police force: Northamptonshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 6116
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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine with high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
First point of impact
Front
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Hit object in carriageway
Parked vehicle
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
28 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 28, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)

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 198634AC00882 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.