B6533 crash in Rotherham on 30 November 1998 at 17:45 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B6533 in Rotherham at 17:45 on Monday 30 November 1998. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1998
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38925, longitude -1.37025, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waverley and Catcliffe.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199814FF01048
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6533
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2014.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 23 September 2014
2 m awayRef 201414C097714
Fatal
Kia Picanto crash on the B6533 in Rotherham, 1 October 2017
7 m awayRef 2017140229284
Slight
Car crash on the B6533 in Rotherham, 27 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198614C100372
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6533 in Rotherham, 14 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199614FF00458
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6533 in Rotherham, 8 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025141651906
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 12 May 2008
45 m awayRef 200814C062608
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,766 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199814FF01048 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.