A428 crash in West Northamptonshire on 24 December 1998 at 15:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A428 in West Northamptonshire at 15:00 on Thursday 24 December 1998. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24476, longitude -0.92037, in the NN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northampton. The location was in the former Northampton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199834NN01735
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Northamptonshire, 2 April 1988
10 m awayRef 198834BS00657
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 9 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199834NN00457
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 13 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199634TN00683
Slight
Car crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 30 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198234CS00584
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 3 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199734NN00147
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A428 in West Northamptonshire, 27 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200334NN03760
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 199834NN01735 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.