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Serious C road crash in North Northamptonshire LE16 on 6 December 1998 at 17:30 involving a Mitsubishi

A Mitsubishi crashed on a C road in North Northamptonshire at 17:30 on Sunday 6 December 1998. The 42-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
6 Dec 1998
Sunday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Mitsubishi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52108, longitude -0.8666, in the LE16 postcode district. The location was in the former Kettering district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199834NC00740
Council area
North Northamptonshire
Police force
Northamptonshire
Highway authority
Northamptonshire

Road and location details

First road class
C
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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2025.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    42 years
    Engine capacity
    2,800 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi)

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 199834NC00740 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.