Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S61 on 9 May 2001 at 19:45 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 19:45 on Wednesday 9 May 2001. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2001
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43, longitude -1.37837, in the S61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rotherham West, Rotherham, S61 1LZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200114FF00363
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLK Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200114FF00363 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 2001.