Serious A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 23 December 1986 at 18:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 18:50 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured. The location was in the former Northampton district.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198634BS02255
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198634BS02255 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.