Serious C road crash in Rotherham on 22 December 1995 at 23:25 involving a Ford Sierra

A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on a C road in Rotherham at 23:25 on Friday 22 December 1995. A 21-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: 22 Dec 1995; Friday, 23:25
Vehicles: 1; Ford Sierra
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 199514FF02782
Council area: Rotherham
Police force: South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph
Trunk road: Non-trunk road

Junction information

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

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
54 years
Engine capacity
1,593 cc
Fuel or propulsion
Petrol
Vehicle age
4 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 199514FF02782 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 1995.