Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S61 on 21 May 2002 at 09:10 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 09:10 on Tuesday 21 May 2002. A 70-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2002
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44453, longitude -1.3896, in the S61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Keppel, Rotherham, S61 3EQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200214FF00453
- 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
- Other 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 17 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198514C100895
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 14 March 2016
16 m awayRef 2016140052561
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 26 June 2002
22 m awayRef 200214FF00546
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 1 May 1979
22 m awayRef 197914C100798
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 10 January 1985
28 m awayRef 198514C100060
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 8 February 1993
36 m awayRef 199314C100205
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 200214FF00453 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.