B4100 crash in West Northamptonshire on 8 December 1997 at 11:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4100 in West Northamptonshire at 11:45 on Monday 8 December 1997. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1997
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9875, longitude -1.23821, in the OX17 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199734ND00660
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4100
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2003.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B4100 in West Northamptonshire, 13 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200334ND02581
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B4100 in West Northamptonshire, 26 May 2004
10 m awayRef 200434ND02652
Fatal
Volvo crash on the B4100 in West Northamptonshire, 24 May 2004
10 m awayRef 200434TD08020
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in West Northamptonshire, 5 April 1981
14 m awayRef 198134DT00278
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the B4100 in Cherwell, 1 June 2012
14 m awayRef 201243P351062
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in West Northamptonshire, 14 January 1979
14 m awayRef 197934DT00027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, 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 199734ND00660 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 1997.