A427 crash in North Northamptonshire on 10 August 1987 at 05:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire at 05:55 on Monday 10 August 1987. The 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 1987
- Monday, 05:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49408, longitude -0.73104, in the NN18 postcode district. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734AC00512
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 427
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6003
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 26 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199634NC00747
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 25 March 2012
10 m awayRef 201234NC07832
Slight
Car crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 8 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198734AC00510
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 18 July 2025
15 m awayRef 2025340NN2942
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A427 in North Northamptonshire, 29 November 2014
18 m awayRef 201434NC30784
Slight
Car crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 24 February 2019
19 m awayRef 2019340C03281
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198734AC00512 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.