Unclassified road crash in Barnsley on 29 December 1995 at 20:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 20:20 on Friday 29 December 1995. A 15-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1995
- Friday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199514DD02663
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 199514DD02663 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 1995.