Serious A616 crash in Sheffield on 27 December 1986 at 16:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A616 in Sheffield at 16:50 on Saturday 27 December 1986. A 24-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: 27 Dec 1986; Saturday, 16:50
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198614E101499
Council area: Sheffield
Police force: South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 616
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: Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

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
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
45 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 198614E101499 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.