A630 crash in Rotherham on 30 December 1995 at 22:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A630 in Rotherham at 22:25 on Saturday 30 December 1995. The 28-year-old female driver and a 77-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1995
- Saturday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199514FF02798
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 630
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199514FF02798 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.