M1 crash in Rotherham on 15 September 2003 at 22:30 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a car were involved in a crash on the M1 in Rotherham at 22:30 on Monday 15 September 2003. The 25-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2003
- Monday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37542, longitude -1.28041, in the S66 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aughton & Swallownest, Rotherham, S66 9BH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200314GG00748
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 9 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200214FF00798
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 28 November 1996
14 m awayRef 199614GG00945
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 27 October 2013
18 m awayRef 201314C097113
Serious
Leyland crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 24 September 1990
22 m awayRef 199014C301714
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 27 January 1997
22 m awayRef 199714FF00077
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M1 in Rotherham, 7 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025141687138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200314GG00748 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.