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Serious A616 crash in Sheffield on 1 January 1981 at 08:50 involving a car

A car crashed on the A616 in Sheffield at 08:50 on Thursday 1 January 1981. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Jan 1981
Thursday, 08:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46632, longitude -1.55846, in the S36 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198114F200002
Council area
Sheffield
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
616
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198114F200002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sheffield road accident statistics for 1981.