Unclassified road crash in West Northamptonshire CV23 on 5 January 1993 at 17:00 involving a Ford Capri
A Ford Capri crashed on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire at 17:00 on Tuesday 5 January 1993. A 20-year-old male passenger and the 21-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 1993
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33653, longitude -1.17352, in the CV23 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199334ND00007
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2007.
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Slight
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Serious
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Fatal
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
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 199334ND00007 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 1993.