B6089 crash in Rotherham on 21 July 2003 at 12:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the B6089 in Rotherham at 12:35 on Monday 21 July 2003. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and a 45-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2003
- Monday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43298, longitude -1.36358, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boston Castle, Rotherham, S60 1PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200314FF00639
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6089
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 630
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 17 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200714C078407
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 11 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200814C061708
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 23 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200314FF00052
Serious
Skoda Felicia crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 14 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200314FF00617
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 31 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200614C114306
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6089 in Rotherham, 11 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199714FF00211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200314FF00639 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 2003.