Serious B6060 crash in Rotherham on 5 December 2014 at 04:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B6060 in Rotherham at 04:30 on Friday 5 December 2014. The 33-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2014
- Friday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38389, longitude -1.25135, in the S66 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dinnington, Rotherham, S66 9BL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201414C141114
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6060
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 April 2018.
Serious
Lexmoto FMX 125 crash on the B6060 in Rotherham, 14 April 2018
2 m awayRef 2018140288396
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6060 in Rotherham, 15 September 2013
2 m awayRef 201314C075613
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6060 in Rotherham, 11 May 2005
4 m awayRef 200514C076405
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the B6060 in Rotherham, 26 January 1995
4 m awayRef 199514GG00154
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 12 December 2001
4 m awayRef 200114GG00997
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 27 November 2020
5 m awayRef 2020141002254
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, 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 201414C141114 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.