C road crash in West Northamptonshire NN7 on 23 December 1998 at 13:45 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 13:45 on Wednesday 23 December 1998. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26057, longitude -1.01098, in the NN7 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834ND00740
- Council area
- West 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 16 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198634BS00414
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 4 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199634ND00283
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 8 November 2007
22 m awayRef 200734WD55167
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 30 October 2022
32 m awayRef 202234WNC7392
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 14 January 1993
42 m awayRef 199334NS00058
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 9 January 1979
50 m awayRef 197934DD00019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199834ND00740 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.