A425 crash in West Northamptonshire on 6 September 1989 at 10:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A425 in West Northamptonshire at 10:30 on Wednesday 6 September 1989. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 1989
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24499, longitude -1.21023, in the NN11 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198934BD01007
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 425
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 May 1987.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 22 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198734BD00605
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 15 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198434BD01706
Serious
Car crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 31 January 1981
10 m awayRef 198134DD00126
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 4 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199534ND05245
Slight
Honda CRX crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 15 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200434ND04053
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 19 September 1983
14 m awayRef 198334BD01243
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198934BD01007 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.