Serious A618 crash in Rotherham on 24 February 2018 at 19:35 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 and a Kia Sorento were involved in a crash on the A618 in Rotherham at 19:35 on Saturday 24 February 2018. The 90-year-old male driver of the Rover 45 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Feb 2018
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 45 and Kia Sorento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39785, longitude -1.32411, in the S60 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sitwell, Rotherham, S60 4JJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018140277643
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 618
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1999.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 28 September 1999
3 m awayRef 199914FF00775
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 19 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200514C208805
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 4 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200014FF00184
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 30 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200414CC01707
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Rotherham, 13 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199514FF02047
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A618 in Rotherham, 1 September 1993
23 m awayRef 199314C101394
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sorento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 45)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018140277643 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 2018.