Skip to main content
CrashStats

Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S60 on 29 October 1998 at 13:15 involving a Ford Orion

A Ford Orion and a Mazda 323 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 13:15 on Thursday 29 October 1998. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Oct 1998
Thursday, 13:15
Vehicles
2
Ford Orion and Mazda 323
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43026, longitude -1.35836, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham.

Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199814FF00947
Council area
Rotherham
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2002.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Orion

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    1,596 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

  • Vehicle 2: Mazda 323

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,324 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)

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 199814FF00947 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 1998.