A631 crash in Rotherham on 23 July 2004 at 21:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A631 in Rotherham at 21:00 on Friday 23 July 2004. A 23-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 22-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2004
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40666, longitude -1.33373, in the S60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sitwell, Rotherham, S60 4JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200414CC01134
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 631
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 618
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1981.
Slight
Bus crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 28 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198114C100904
Serious
Car crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 14 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198214C100481
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 27 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199914FF00997
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 1 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200014FF00173
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 6 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200714C199007
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 16 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200914C009309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200414CC01134 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 2004.