Serious unclassified road crash in Doncaster DN5 on 9 April 2018 at 00:43 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 crashed on an unclassified road in Doncaster at 00:43 on Monday 9 April 2018. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Apr 2018
- Monday, 00:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53209, longitude -1.24268, in the DN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018140288041
- 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
- 30 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 June 2018.
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 21 June 2018
2 m awayRef 2018140306598
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 26 June 2018
11 m awayRef 2018140307746
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on a C road in Doncaster, 15 September 2007
13 m awayRef 200714A202907
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Doncaster, 4 October 1985
22 m awayRef 198514A302127
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 29 July 2025
43 m awayRef 2025141621987
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Doncaster, 30 April 1993
55 m awayRef 199314A300913
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2018140288041 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 2018.