C road crash in Rotherham on 28 December 1997 at 02:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Nissan were involved in a crash on a C road in Rotherham at 02:30 on Sunday 28 December 1997. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1997
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Nissan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199714FF01099
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199714FF01099 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 1997.