Serious unclassified road crash in Rotherham S65 on 9 December 2014 at 20:52 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 20:52 on Tuesday 9 December 2014. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 20:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Aprilia SR 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43349, longitude -1.34293, in the S65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rotherham East, Rotherham, S65 1QT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201414C130814
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rotherham, 5 November 1988
1 m awayRef 198814C101960
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 27 November 2003
1 m awayRef 200314FF01055
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Rotherham, 4 November 1990
1 m awayRef 199014C101990
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Rotherham, 2 March 1998
1 m awayRef 199814FF00178
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Rotherham, 26 October 1984
1 m awayRef 198414C101962
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 23 June 2008
1 m awayRef 200814C083108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia SR 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia SR 50)
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 201414C130814 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 2014.