A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 2 April 1986 at 13:30 involving a van
A van crashed on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 13:30 on Wednesday 2 April 1986. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1986
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23431, longitude -1.07673, 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
- 198634BD00444
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2006.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 9 August 2006
28 m awayRef 200634WD04291
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 31 October 1987
32 m awayRef 198734BD01497
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 21 July 2016
53 m awayRef 201634WD09876
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 23 November 2003
54 m awayRef 200334ND04895
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 9 September 1988
70 m awayRef 198834BD01098
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 July 1986
80 m awayRef 198634BD00902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198634BD00444 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.