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Serious A61 crash in Barnsley on 10 March 2003 at 21:45 involving an Audi A6

An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on the A61 in Barnsley at 21:45 on Monday 10 March 2003. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Mar 2003
Monday, 21:45
Vehicles
1
Audi A6
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53522, longitude -1.46419, in the S70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worsbrough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Worsbrough, Barnsley, S70 5EZ area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200314EE00196
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
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, 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 15 February 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Audi A6

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    1,896 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 200314EE00196 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.