Unclassified road crash in Rotherham on 31 December 1995 at 23:00 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 23:00 on Sunday 31 December 1995. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1995
- Sunday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199514FF02799
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 630
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199514FF02799 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.