C road crash in North Northamptonshire NN17 on 23 April 1987 at 15:45 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire at 15:45 on Thursday 23 April 1987. The 31-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 1987
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50312, longitude -0.67819, in the NN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Corby. The location was in the former Corby district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734AC00243
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 13 August 1998
45 m awayRef 199834NC00455
Slight
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85 m awayRef 201034NC00630
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Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 3 October 2025
101 m awayRef 2025340NN4092
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Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 21 October 2008
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Proton Persona crash on the A6116 in North Northamptonshire, 7 November 2002
112 m awayRef 200234NC02654
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Taxi crash on a C road in North Northamptonshire, 19 September 1987
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198734AC00243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1987.