A5 crash in West Northamptonshire on 8 December 1993 at 17:15 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A5 in West Northamptonshire at 17:15 on Wednesday 8 December 1993. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1993
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34948, longitude -1.17313, in the CV23 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
- 199334ND00959
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1987.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 16 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198734BD01585
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 18 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199734ND00171
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 10 October 1987
60 m awayRef 198734BD01377
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 28 May 2024
72 m awayRef 2024340WN2942
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 9 April 1988
182 m awayRef 198834BD00503
Serious
Triumph Sprint ST crash on the A5 in West Northamptonshire, 3 September 2004
235 m awayRef 200434ND04323
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 199334ND00959 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.