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A6021 crash in Rotherham on 21 December 1996 at 00:01 involving a taxi

A taxi crashed on the A6021 in Rotherham at 00:01 on Saturday 21 December 1996. A 22-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Dec 1996
Saturday, 00:01
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43062, longitude -1.35775, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199614FF00984
Council area
Rotherham
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6021
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 22, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 199614FF00984 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 1996.