B4525 crash in West Northamptonshire on 8 October 1998 at 07:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B4525 in West Northamptonshire at 07:00 on Thursday 8 October 1998. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 1998
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0699, longitude -1.1039, in the NN13 postcode district. The location was in the former South Northamptonshire district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834ND00559
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4525
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2000.
Serious
Daewoo Matiz crash on the B4525 in West Northamptonshire, 30 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200034ND00359
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B4525 in West Northamptonshire, 19 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200034ND00266
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4525 in West Northamptonshire, 5 February 1993
14 m awayRef 199334ND00117
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 24 August 1990
14 m awayRef 199034BD00723
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4525 in West Northamptonshire, 20 January 1995
14 m awayRef 199534TD00037
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 30 March 1989
20 m awayRef 198934BD00327
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 199834ND00559 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 1998.