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A61 crash in Barnsley on 29 February 1980 at 15:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A61 in Barnsley at 15:40 on Friday 29 February 1980. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Feb 1980
Friday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55318, longitude -1.47831, in the S70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198014B100341
Council area
Barnsley
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
61
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198014B100341 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 1980.