A18 crash in Doncaster on 7 February 2011 at 20:15 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A18 in Doncaster at 20:15 on Monday 7 February 2011. The 47-year-old male driver of the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2011
- Monday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51597, longitude -1.12661, in the DN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Doncaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Doncaster, DN1 3EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201114A019911
- Council area
- Doncaster
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 18
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2001.
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 31 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200114AA00616
Slight
Car crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 3 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197914A100267
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 31 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200114AA00546
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 10 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198614A102252
Serious
Car crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 3 May 1979
14 m awayRef 197914A100965
Serious
Car crash on the A18 in Doncaster, 10 February 1979
20 m awayRef 197914A100339
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 201114A019911 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 2011.