Serious unclassified road crash in Doncaster DN7 on 26 December 2015 at 22:52 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Doncaster at 22:52 on Saturday 26 December 2015. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 22:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57711, longitude -1.01966, in the DN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunscroft and Hatfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hatfield, Doncaster, DN7 4LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201514A199615
- Council area
- Doncaster
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 12 May 1994.
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 12 May 1994
2 m awayRef 199414A200916
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 9 February 2009
2 m awayRef 200914A023309
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 30 May 1991
11 m awayRef 199114A201145
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 13 January 1979
12 m awayRef 197914A200078
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 21 August 1984
19 m awayRef 198414A201868
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Doncaster, 24 May 1982
19 m awayRef 198214A201139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201514A199615 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 2015.