A630 crash in Rotherham on 20 December 2010 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A630 in Rotherham at 20:15 on Monday 20 December 2010. The 32-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2010
- Monday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47094, longitude -1.25906, in the DN12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Conisbrough, Doncaster, DN12 2BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201014C154710
- 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
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 April 2019.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 13 April 2019
9 m awayRef 2019140831523
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 26 February 2008
10 m awayRef 200814C025608
Serious
Car crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 12 October 1979
22 m awayRef 197914C201762
Slight
Volvo crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 7 August 2011
36 m awayRef 201114C090611
Slight
Van crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 3 November 1980
50 m awayRef 198014C201727
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 8 February 2009
64 m awayRef 200914A026709
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 201014C154710 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 2010.