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Fatal A6123 crash in Rotherham on 19 October 1982 at 12:39 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A6123 in Rotherham at 12:39 on Tuesday 19 October 1982. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
19 Oct 1982
Tuesday, 12:39
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43779, longitude -1.32182, in the S65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198214C101847
Council area
Rotherham
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6123
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 198214C101847 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 1982.