Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S62 on 16 December 2016 at 08:55 involving a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle and a Seat Alhambra taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 08:55 on Friday 16 December 2016. The 46-year-old female rider of the Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2016
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZR750 and Seat Alhambra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45237, longitude -1.34287, in the S62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawmarsh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rawmarsh East, Rotherham, S62 6DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016140139097
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dry
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A633 in Rotherham, 6 December 1981
6 m awayRef 198114C101991
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 13 June 1981
14 m awayRef 198114C200985
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 23 March 1982
14 m awayRef 198214C200557
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 3 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025141677891
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rotherham, 18 May 1988
19 m awayRef 198814C200871
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rotherham, 21 June 1988
24 m awayRef 198814C201063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZR750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 738 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Alhambra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZR750)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016140139097 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 2016.