A628 crash in Barnsley on 23 October 2002 at 13:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Seddon/Atkinson lorry were involved in a crash on the A628 in Barnsley at 13:10 on Wednesday 23 October 2002. The 33-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 23 Oct 2002
- Wednesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Seddon/Atkinson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57716, longitude -1.4176, in the S72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cudworth and Shafton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200214EE00789
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 628
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 9 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A628 in Barnsley, 9 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199614EE00468
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A628 in Barnsley, 1 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199814EE00536
Serious
Car crash on the A628 in Barnsley, 21 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198214B202308
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 5 September 2025
17 m awayRef 2025141639132
Slight
Car crash on the A628 in Barnsley, 31 May 1983
20 m awayRef 198314B200985
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A628 in Barnsley, 3 March 1996
22 m awayRef 199614EE00210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Seddon/Atkinson
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200214EE00789 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.