Serious B4031 crash in West Northamptonshire on 28 April 1989 at 18:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire at 18:00 on Friday 28 April 1989. The 53-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Apr 1989
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99599, longitude -1.17762, in the NN13 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198934BD00467
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4031
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1997.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 30 September 1997
32 m awayRef 199734ND00486
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 4 January 2005
51 m awayRef 200534ND00082
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 15 November 2001
60 m awayRef 200134ND00653
Slight
Car crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 8 March 1982
60 m awayRef 198234DT00239
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 27 December 1997
61 m awayRef 199734ND00705
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4031 in West Northamptonshire, 20 September 1989
70 m awayRef 198934BD01075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 53, 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 198934BD00467 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 1989.