A61 crash in Sheffield on 26 February 2003 at 21:30 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A61 in Sheffield at 21:30 on Wednesday 26 February 2003. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36563, longitude -1.46963, in the S2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheffield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nether Edge and Sharrow, Sheffield, S2 4LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200314HH00238
- Council area
- Sheffield
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 22 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 22 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200114HH00788
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 9 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200314HH01061
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 26 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200314HH00101
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 26 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200014HH01258
Slight
Optare Excel crash on a C road in Sheffield, 14 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200114II00572
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 17 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200314HH00956
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200314HH00238 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sheffield road accident statistics for 2003.