M45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 29 December 1986 at 20:20 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on the M45 in West Northamptonshire at 20:20 on Monday 29 December 1986. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured. The location was in the former Daventry district.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1986
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BD01868
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 198634BD01868 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.