Unclassified road crash in Barnsley S73 on 27 November 1997 at 12:30 involving a Seat Malaga
A Seat Malaga crashed on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 12:30 on Thursday 27 November 1997. A 42-year-old female passenger and the 41-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1997
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Malaga
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53145, longitude -1.40541, in the S73 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199714EE00824
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Malaga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,193 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Malaga)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Malaga)
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 199714EE00824 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 1997.