C road crash in West Northamptonshire CV23 on 18 December 1987 at 16:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 16:30 on Friday 18 December 1987. The 28-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1987
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33061, longitude -1.20181, in the CV23 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734BD01796
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 3 October 2016
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 30 April 2025
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 30 May 1989
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Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 29 November 1998
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Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 11 March 1991
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 9 July 1985
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 28, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198734BD01796 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.