Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S66 on 6 June 1998 at 12:45 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 12:45 on Saturday 6 June 1998. The 6-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1998
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42049, longitude -1.1981, in the S66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maltby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199814GG00441
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 14 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198914C300093
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
Daewoo Espero crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 24 May 1999
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 6, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199814GG00441 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.