A4300 crash in North Northamptonshire on 1 October 1987 at 17:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire at 17:45 on Thursday 1 October 1987. The 53-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 49-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1987
- Thursday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40157, longitude -0.73091, in the NN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kettering. The location was in the former Kettering district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734AK00829
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4300
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 22 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200034NC00699
Slight
Car crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 1 April 1981
14 m awayRef 198134AK00209
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 22 January 1997
20 m awayRef 199734NC00041
Slight
Car crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 27 February 1987
20 m awayRef 198734AK00171
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 11 September 2007
28 m awayRef 200734NK44667
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4300 in North Northamptonshire, 26 January 2002
28 m awayRef 200234NC00053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198734AK00829 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.