Serious unclassified road crash in Barnsley on 25 December 2000 at 16:30 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 16:30 on Monday 25 December 2000. The 17-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2000
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Vitara and Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200014DD00912
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200014DD00912 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 2000.