A4256 crash in West Northamptonshire on 22 October 1998 at 17:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire at 17:50 on Thursday 22 October 1998. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1998
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26152, longitude -1.15572, in the NN11 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
- 199834ND00591
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4256
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 12 December 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 12 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199534ND05505
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in West Northamptonshire, 29 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198234DD01309
Serious
Car crash on the A4256 in West Northamptonshire, 16 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199834ND00512
Slight
Car crash on the B4036 in West Northamptonshire, 19 September 2019
15 m awayRef 2019340D07871
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A425 in West Northamptonshire, 8 August 1992
22 m awayRef 199234ND00522
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4036 in West Northamptonshire, 27 December 2012
22 m awayRef 201234WD33462
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199834ND00591 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.