A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 23 December 1987 at 20:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 20:20 on Wednesday 23 December 1987. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1987
- Wednesday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25099, longitude -0.93224, in the NN5 postcode district. The location was in the former Northampton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198734BS02250
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1992.
Slight
Leyland Freighter crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 23 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199234NS01143
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 1 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199534TS00155
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 14 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199634NN00977
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 9 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199034BS00044
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 11 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200634WN06965
Slight
Kia Carens crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 9 December 2017
8 m awayRef 201734WN10617
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198734BS02250 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.