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Unclassified road crash in Barnsley S70 on 20 January 1979 at 18:30

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 18:30 on Saturday 20 January 1979. A 34-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark on a snow-covered one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Jan 1979
Saturday, 18:30
Vehicles
1
Other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53523, longitude -1.46375, in the S70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worsbrough.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197914B100119
Council area
Barnsley
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

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, lighting unknown
Weather
Other
Road surface
Snow
Special conditions at the site
Road surface defective
Carriageway hazards
Poor or defective road surface

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Back

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic

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 197914B100119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnsley road accident statistics for 1979.