C road crash in Doncaster DN6 on 6 January 1980 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Doncaster at 23:30 on Sunday 6 January 1980. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 1980
- Sunday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61632, longitude -1.14239, in the DN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Askern.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198014A300045
- Council area
- Doncaster
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2007.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on a C road in Doncaster, 12 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200714A175807
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 16 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199714CC00389
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 22 December 1983
10 m awayRef 198314A103003
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 29 April 1996
22 m awayRef 199614CC00267
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Doncaster, 12 December 2005
30 m awayRef 200514A278905
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 18 September 1979
30 m awayRef 197914A301906
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198014A300045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Doncaster road accident statistics for 1980.