Serious C road crash in Rotherham on 31 December 1986 at 19:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Rotherham at 19:45 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. A 74-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 19:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198614C102433
Council area: Rotherham
Police force: South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
37 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 198614C102433 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.