C road crash in Barnsley S72 on 16 March 1992 at 19:25 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina crashed on a C road in Barnsley at 19:25 on Monday 16 March 1992. The 30-year-old male driver, a 25-year-old female passenger and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1992
- Monday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55726, longitude -1.39025, in the S72 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199214B200424
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1983.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199214B200424 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 1992.