A631 crash in Rotherham on 2 December 2004 at 16:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
Two Ford Fiestas were involved in a crash on the A631 in Rotherham at 16:00 on Thursday 2 December 2004. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 41-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40657, longitude -1.33359, 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
- 200414CC01953
- 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
- 50 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 10 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200314FF00872
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 16 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199714FF00143
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 31 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200614C213806
Slight
Car crash on the A6318 in Rotherham, 22 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198814C102376
Slight
Car crash on the A631 in Rotherham, 22 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198814C100711
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 22 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200014FF00238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, 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 200414CC01953 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.