Unclassified road crash in Rotherham S65 on 8 June 2017 at 15:30 involving a Volkswagen Crafter lorry
A Volkswagen Crafter lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rotherham at 15:30 on Thursday 8 June 2017. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2017
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Crafter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43144, longitude -1.35411, in the S65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rotherham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boston Castle, Rotherham, S60 1PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017140192288
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2010.
Slight
Optare Excel crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 20 March 2010
1 m awayRef 201014C034410
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 4 December 2007
1 m awayRef 200714C194007
Serious
MG ZT crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 11 January 2006
9 m awayRef 200614C006106
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 27 September 2005
11 m awayRef 200514C153505
Slight
Car crash on the A602 in Rotherham, 11 July 1987
21 m awayRef 198714C101156
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rotherham, 12 April 1989
24 m awayRef 198914C100723
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Crafter
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Crafter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017140192288 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 2017.