A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 16 March 1991 at 17:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 17:15 on Saturday 16 March 1991. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1991
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33589, longitude -1.06346, in the NN6 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
- 199134BD00227
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1996.
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 21 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199634ND00629
Serious
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 6 October 1995
71 m awayRef 199534ND05327
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 11 February 1997
71 m awayRef 199734ND00066
Serious
Car crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 19 September 2022
152 m awayRef 202234WNC6442
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 1 June 1995
156 m awayRef 199534ND05095
Serious
Car crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 22 December 1984
156 m awayRef 198434BD01992
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199134BD00227 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.