Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S26 on 2 May 2015 at 21:52 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 21:52 on Saturday 2 May 2015. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2015
- Saturday, 21:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35725, longitude -1.27168, in the S26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201514C045915
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 18 October 2006
14 m awayRef 200614C163106
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 29 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199714FF00356
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 31 December 2005
37 m awayRef 200514C215405
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 15 October 2004
38 m awayRef 200414CC01918
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 4 December 1990
43 m awayRef 199014C302215
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 15 December 1992
53 m awayRef 199214C302157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201514C045915 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 2015.