A6123 crash in Rotherham on 26 December 2020 at 19:47 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A6123 in Rotherham at 19:47 on Saturday 26 December 2020. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Insignia and the 36-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Insignia were slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 19:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43306, longitude -1.36359, in the S60 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Rotherham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020141010471
- Council area
- Rotherham
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6123
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 630
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1992.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B6089 in Rotherham, 28 August 1992
4 m awayRef 199214C101375
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6089 in Rotherham, 1 April 1999
4 m awayRef 199914FF00325
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A6123 in Rotherham, 11 May 2008
6 m awayRef 200814C061708
Serious
Skoda Felicia crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 14 July 2003
6 m awayRef 200314FF00617
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6089 in Rotherham, 21 July 2003
6 m awayRef 200314FF00639
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A630 in Rotherham, 23 January 2003
6 m awayRef 200314FF00052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 2020141010471 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 2020.