A422 crash in West Northamptonshire on 7 July 1986 at 10:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire at 10:30 on Monday 7 July 1986. The 21-year-old male driver of the car and the 35-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
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
- 7 Jul 1986
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07227, longitude -1.26463, in the OX17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middleton Cheney. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BD00870
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2001.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 5 May 2001
20 m awayRef 200134ND00250
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 8 February 1986
30 m awayRef 198634BD00177
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 19 July 1987
36 m awayRef 198734BD00931
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 24 July 1983
50 m awayRef 198334BD00993
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 12 September 2023
89 m awayRef 2023340WN5122
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 4 February 1980
100 m awayRef 198034DT00147
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198634BD00870 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.