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Serious unclassified road crash in Rotherham S65 on 16 April 2002 at 08:20 involving a Gilera Cougar motorcycle

A Gilera Cougar motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 08:20 on Tuesday 16 April 2002. The 17-year-old female rider was seriously injured and a 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Apr 2002
Tuesday, 08:20
Vehicles
1
Gilera Cougar
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43376, longitude -1.34189, in the S65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rotherham East, Rotherham, S65 1QT area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200214FF00368
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
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Gilera Cougar

    Motorcycle 125cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    17 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Gilera Cougar)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Serious

    Female, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Gilera Cougar)

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 200214FF00368 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 2002.