B6066 crash in Rotherham on 2 May 2018 at 14:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the B6066 in Rotherham at 14:00 on Wednesday 2 May 2018. An 84-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class 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
- 2 May 2018
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39053, longitude -1.36256, in the S60 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rother Vale, Rotherham, S60 5SB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018140292615
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 19 March 2017
3 m awayRef 2017140169083
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 8 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016140137371
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 7 April 1989
5 m awayRef 198914C100702
Slight
Taxi crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 1 April 1988
11 m awayRef 198814C100598
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 8 December 1997
11 m awayRef 199714FF01011
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6066 in Rotherham, 10 August 2004
27 m awayRef 200414CC01220
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
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
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018140292615 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.