A61 crash in Barnsley on 13 March 1998 at 16:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1998
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.56214, longitude -1.4708, in the S71 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199814DD00177
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 17 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200414BB00431
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 23 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199714DD00930
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 8 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200914B057409
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 19 May 2013
11 m awayRef 201314B024713
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 24 June 1989
14 m awayRef 198914B101082
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 12 April 2010
14 m awayRef 201014B041810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199814DD00177 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 1998.