Serious unclassified road crash in North Northamptonshire on 24 December 1986 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire at 15:30 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634AC00950
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198634AC00950 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.