A45 crash in West Northamptonshire on 18 December 1988 at 19:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire at 19:15 on Sunday 18 December 1988. A 13-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1988
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23792, longitude -1.05556, 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
- 198834BD01569
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 16 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198834BD01126
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 June 1991
At the same spotRef 199134ND00474
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 21 November 2014
1 m awayRef 201434WD31494
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 20 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025340WN5912
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 18 June 1990
10 m awayRef 199034BD00536
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in West Northamptonshire, 4 May 1982
14 m awayRef 198234DD00399
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198834BD01569 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.