A6123 crash in Rotherham on 12 December 2007 at 17:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6123 in Rotherham at 17:20 on Wednesday 12 December 2007. The 19-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44969, longitude -1.34586, in the S62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawmarsh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rawmarsh East, Rotherham, S62 6DZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200714C198707
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6123
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Rotherham, 4 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199614FF00203
Slight
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3 m awayRef 2024141424785
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 15 October 2020
4 m awayRef 2020140990245
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 27 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025141595378
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 25 February 2013
6 m awayRef 2013140003771
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 7 March 2018
7 m awayRef 2018140280206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200714C198707 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.