C road crash in Doncaster DN5 on 29 December 2008 at 18:25 involving an Iveco lorry
An Iveco lorry, a Citroen Xsara and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on a C road in Doncaster at 18:25 on Monday 29 December 2008. The 50-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara, the 26-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 and a 48-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Xsara were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2008
- Monday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Iveco and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51756, longitude -1.17198, in the DN5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sprotbrough, Doncaster, DN5 7NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200814A247408
- 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
- 30 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 1982.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 7 January 1982
10 m awayRef 198214A300081
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 17 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198214A301767
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 27 July 1998
50 m awayRef 199814CC00475
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Doncaster, 7 November 2001
57 m awayRef 200114CC00772
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 15 December 2004
57 m awayRef 200414AA02834
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 22 September 2018
61 m awayRef 2018140333524
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Iveco
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Audi A3)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200814A247408 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.