Serious unclassified road crash in Doncaster DN6 on 24 January 2017 at 04:30 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Doncaster at 04:30 on Tuesday 24 January 2017. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 22-year-old female passenger and the 23-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6094, longitude -1.24013, in the DN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017140154624
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 6 June 1988
42 m awayRef 198814A301230
Serious
Bedford 6CWT crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 27 October 1992
51 m awayRef 199214A302132
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 26 December 2020
54 m awayRef 2020141010152
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 31 July 1993
62 m awayRef 199314A301442
Slight
Van crash on the A1 in Doncaster, 15 May 1979
657 m awayRef 197914A301031
Serious
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2002
768 m awayRef 2002122300065
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2017140154624 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 2017.