A630 crash in Rotherham on 9 May 2007 at 23:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Kinroad XT 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A630 in Rotherham at 23:05 on Wednesday 9 May 2007. The 16-year-old male rider of the Kinroad XT 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2007
- Wednesday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Kinroad XT 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41247, longitude -1.36118, in the S60 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200714C073107
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 630
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2011.
Slight
Honda CBR125R crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 24 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201114C096611
Slight
Volvo C70 crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 4 September 2010
10 m awayRef 201014C104510
Serious
Car crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 28 December 1982
30 m awayRef 198214C102417
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 23 April 2005
40 m awayRef 200514C063505
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 5 January 1994
45 m awayRef 199414C100007
Fatal
Car crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 15 February 1980
60 m awayRef 198014C100248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Kinroad XT 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Kinroad XT 50)
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 200714C073107 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 2007.