A61 crash in Barnsley on 17 July 2002 at 13:45 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A61 in Barnsley at 13:45 on Wednesday 17 July 2002. An 82-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Saxo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2002
- Wednesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57934, longitude -1.48055, in the S71 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Athersley & New Lodge, Barnsley, S71 3LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200214DD00544
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6132
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2025.
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 17 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025141669752
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 31 December 2020
11 m awayRef 2020141011213
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 3 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016140097363
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 2 December 2022
12 m awayRef 2022141251928
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 23 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199614DD00974
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 28 August 2002
14 m awayRef 200214DD00660
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200214DD00544 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 2002.