M1 crash in Rotherham on 23 December 1996 at 10:45 involving a Ford Orion
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1996
- Monday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199614FF01017
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 57
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- 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 199614FF01017 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.