C road crash in West Northamptonshire CV23 on 26 September 1986 at 08:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 08:20 on Friday 26 September 1986. The 18-year-old male rider 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
- 26 Sep 1986
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33982, longitude -1.20736, in the CV23 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BD01260
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 27 June 1986
130 m awayRef 198634BD00835
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 24 February 1985
170 m awayRef 198534BD00254
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 22 May 1981
180 m awayRef 198134DD00469
Serious
Vehicle crash on the M45 in West Northamptonshire, 1 July 1992
269 m awayRef 199234TD00499
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the M45 in West Northamptonshire, 14 November 1991
322 m awayRef 199134ND05983
Serious
Car crash on the M45 in West Northamptonshire, 20 April 1987
324 m awayRef 198734BD00468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198634BD01260 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.