B6066 crash in Rotherham on 15 February 1980 at 20:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B6066 in Rotherham at 20:00 on Friday 15 February 1980. A 56-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1980
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40503, longitude -1.3631, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brinsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198014C100256
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6066
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1980.
Slight
Bus crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 25 June 1980
14 m awayRef 198014C100989
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 18 November 1996
14 m awayRef 199614FF00861
Serious
Car crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 14 May 1983
20 m awayRef 198314C100835
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 13 December 2021
22 m awayRef 2021141124829
Slight
Car crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 6 April 1979
22 m awayRef 197914C100628
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 5 February 2007
22 m awayRef 200714C020307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198014C100256 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rotherham road accident statistics for 1980.