Serious unclassified road crash in Barnsley S35 on 28 December 2003 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 18:00 on Sunday 28 December 2003. A 22-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49315, longitude -1.50436, in the S35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200314EE00996
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2011.
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 2 February 1986
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200314EE00996 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.