Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S25 on 25 December 2013 at 00:54 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 00:54 on Wednesday 25 December 2013. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2013
- Wednesday, 00:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37278, longitude -1.20503, in the S25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dinnington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dinnington, Rotherham, S25 2EZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201314C128013
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2006.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 29 March 2001
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 13 April 2018
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 4 July 2025
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Serious
Kia Ceed crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 6 March 2013
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201314C128013 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 2013.