A6182 crash in Doncaster on 12 August 2008 at 12:25 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and an LDV 400 Series van were involved in a crash on the A6182 in Doncaster at 12:25 on Tuesday 12 August 2008. The 57-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2008
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and LDV 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51393, longitude -1.12937, in the DN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Doncaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Doncaster, DN4 5DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200814A161408
- Council area
- Doncaster
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6182
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2019.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A6182 in Doncaster, 5 October 2019
2 m awayRef 2019140885693
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6182 in Doncaster, 24 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199914AA00510
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6182 in Doncaster, 18 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199814AA00519
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A6182 in Doncaster, 14 September 2015
14 m awayRef 201514A132915
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A6182 in Doncaster, 17 March 2006
14 m awayRef 200614A057206
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 18 July 2002
20 m awayRef 200214AA00587
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 200814A161408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Doncaster road accident statistics for 2008.