B6090 crash in Rotherham on 15 March 2012 at 08:00 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the B6090 in Rotherham at 08:00 on Thursday 15 March 2012. The 32-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2012
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47498, longitude -1.3185, in the S64 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swinton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilnhurst & Swinton East, Rotherham, S64 8RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201214C029712
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6090
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 22 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198914C201380
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 22 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201114C149111
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 19 October 2013
13 m awayRef 201314C101813
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 13 April 2001
28 m awayRef 200114GG00307
Slight
Van crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 24 December 1991
50 m awayRef 199114C202178
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B6090 in Rotherham, 21 July 1997
50 m awayRef 199714GG00606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201214C029712 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 2012.