A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 27 March 1986 at 09:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 09:50 on Thursday 27 March 1986. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 1986
- Thursday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20947, longitude -1.05017, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BD00400
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 5 June 1983
20 m awayRef 198334BS00971
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 22 March 2021
21 m awayRef 202134WNC1721
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 6 July 1982
22 m awayRef 198234DT00666
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 22 November 1993
30 m awayRef 199334NS01440
Fatal
Mercedes 200 crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 29 January 2002
32 m awayRef 200234TD08085
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 29 November 1999
32 m awayRef 199934ND00750
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198634BD00400 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 1986.