C road crash in Doncaster DN5 on 1 December 2008 at 13:40 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro crashed on a C road in Doncaster at 13:40 on Monday 1 December 2008. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2008
- Monday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51342, longitude -1.22604, in the DN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200814A232908
- Council area
- Doncaster
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
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 200814A232908 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.