C road crash in Barnsley S75 on 22 February 2003 at 10:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on a C road in Barnsley at 10:40 on Saturday 22 February 2003. A 10-year-old female passenger in the Ford Sierra, the 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra and a 36-year-old male passenger in the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2003
- Saturday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55775, longitude -1.49787, in the S75 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Barnsley, S75 2DZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200314DD00158
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Barnsley, 28 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198314B102128
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Barnsley, 6 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198714B100219
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Barnsley, 2 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199114B100788
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 20 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199914DD00129
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Barnsley, 14 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199214B101491
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Barnsley, 15 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198714B100593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- 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 200314DD00158 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 2003.