A508 crash in West Northamptonshire on 6 July 1988 at 22:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A508 in West Northamptonshire at 22:25 on Wednesday 6 July 1988. The 31-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 1988
- Wednesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12615, longitude -0.90761, in the NN12 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198834BD00848
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 16 March 1987
50 m awayRef 198734BD00309
Slight
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 20 May 1983
102 m awayRef 198334BD00836
Serious
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 29 March 1983
102 m awayRef 198334BD00414
Slight
Car crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 22 January 1985
104 m awayRef 198534BD00072
Slight
Lorry crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 2 March 1991
104 m awayRef 199134BD00188
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A508 in West Northamptonshire, 27 January 2009
117 m awayRef 200934TS04539
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 198834BD00848 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 1988.