Serious A605 crash in North Northamptonshire on 16 January 1998 at 18:55 involving a Volvo 440
A Volvo 440 hit a pedestrian on the A605 in North Northamptonshire at 18:55 on Friday 16 January 1998. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jan 1998
- Friday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45349, longitude -0.46231, in the PE8 postcode district. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834NC00038
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 605
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire, 1 March 2007
30 m awayRef 200734NE10057
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire, 14 November 2003
51 m awayRef 200334NC04685
Serious
Car crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire, 23 July 1987
51 m awayRef 198734AC00468
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire, 24 September 2007
54 m awayRef 200734NE45347
Slight
Car crash on the A605 in North Northamptonshire, 16 December 1985
54 m awayRef 198534AC00891
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in North Northamptonshire, 14 December 2025
55 m awayRef 2025340NN5072
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 440)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199834NC00038 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 1998.