Serious A422 crash in West Northamptonshire on 28 January 1991 at 15:15 involving a Triumph Acclaim
A Triumph Acclaim crashed on the A422 in West Northamptonshire at 15:15 on Monday 28 January 1991. The 20-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 1991
- Monday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Acclaim
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04305, longitude -1.19586, in the NN13 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199134BD00110
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 March 1991.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 4 March 1991
28 m awayRef 199134BD00195
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 21 April 1991
86 m awayRef 199134BD00326
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 31 January 1989
100 m awayRef 198934BD00129
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 15 October 2016
101 m awayRef 201634WS12676
Fatal
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 8 July 1979
112 m awayRef 197934DT00530
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in West Northamptonshire, 21 December 1980
112 m awayRef 198034DT01241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Acclaim
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,335 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Triumph Acclaim)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Triumph Acclaim)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199134BD00110 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 1991.