A6135 crash in Sheffield on 20 November 1985 at 17:10 involving a car
Four cars and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A6135 in Sheffield at 17:10 on Wednesday 20 November 1985. The 37-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 and the 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1985
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 5
- Car and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39148, longitude -1.45849, in the S4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheffield.
Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198514D101410
- Council area
- Sheffield
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6135
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 26 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200314KK00433
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 15 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200914K212809
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 25 December 2020
5 m awayRef 2020141010122
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 16 February 2021
7 m awayRef 2021141022013
Slight
Car crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 12 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198514D201104
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6135 in Sheffield, 5 February 1992
10 m awayRef 199214D200085
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (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 198514D101410 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 1985.