B6070 crash in Sheffield on 10 December 1985 at 00:01 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B6070 in Sheffield at 00:01 on Tuesday 10 December 1985. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39273, longitude -1.47772, in the S3 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
- 198514F101421
- Council area
- Sheffield
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6074
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 9 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6070 in Sheffield, 9 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199714JJ00775
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6070 in Sheffield, 22 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198114F101370
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the B6070 in Sheffield, 5 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199614JJ00172
Slight
Car crash on the B6070 in Sheffield, 11 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198514F100423
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6074 in Sheffield, 26 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199314F101009
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6070 in Sheffield, 17 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201214K114812
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198514F101421 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.