Serious A631 crash in Sheffield on 25 December 1986 at 23:50 involving a car

A car crashed on the A631 in Sheffield at 23:50 on Thursday 25 December 1986. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1986; Thursday, 23:50
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198614D201733
Council area: Sheffield
Police force: South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 631
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: A
Second road number: 6178

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
25 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 25, 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 198614D201733 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 1986.