Unclassified road crash in Sheffield S5 on 1 January 2016 at 12:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sheffield at 12:30 on Friday 1 January 2016. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2016
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41601, longitude -1.44944, in the S5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheffield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Firth Park, Sheffield, S5 6LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016140038280
- Council area
- Sheffield
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Sheffield, 12 May 2010
5 m awayRef 201014K135710
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Sheffield, 19 May 1984
5 m awayRef 198414F200617
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Sheffield, 31 January 1985
5 m awayRef 198514F200143
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sheffield, 18 December 1982
5 m awayRef 198214F201720
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Sheffield, 16 November 2003
5 m awayRef 200314KK00960
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Sheffield, 26 November 2000
5 m awayRef 200014KK01097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2016140038280 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sheffield road accident statistics for 2016.