A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 11 August 1987 at 10:00 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 10:00 on Tuesday 11 August 1987. The 24-year-old female 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
- 11 Aug 1987
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23774, longitude -1.05542, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734BD01036
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 16 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198834BD01126
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 December 1988
22 m awayRef 198834BD01569
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 June 1991
22 m awayRef 199134ND00474
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 November 2014
23 m awayRef 201434WD31494
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 20 October 2025
26 m awayRef 2025340WN5912
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 June 1990
28 m awayRef 199034BD00536
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 198734BD01036 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 1987.