M18 crash in Rotherham on 29 December 1997 at 12:57 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Rover 100 Series were involved in a crash on the M18 in Rotherham at 12:57 on Monday 29 December 1997. The 84-year-old female driver of the Rover 100 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1997
- Monday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199714FF01100
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 18
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 100 Series)
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 199714FF01100 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.