Serious unclassified road crash in Rotherham on 24 December 1986 at 22:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 22:00 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198614C102403
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, 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 198614C102403 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 1986.