Serious A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 18 December 1986 at 23:32 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 23:32 on Thursday 18 December 1986. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured. The location was in the former Northampton district.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 23:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BN01276
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198634BN01276 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.