A6 crash in North Northamptonshire on 18 December 1986 at 10:15 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A6 in North Northamptonshire at 10:15 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 70-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured. The location was in the former Kettering district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634AK01115
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 70, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198634AK01115 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.