- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2005
- Friday, 08:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55782, longitude -1.47327, in the S71 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Barnsley, S71 1PE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200514B071205
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 635
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 2017.
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 13 December 2017
13 m awayRef 2017140256394
Fatal
Van crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 30 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198814B101732
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 3 November 2022
15 m awayRef 2022141238065
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 27 December 1982
22 m awayRef 198214B102354
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 18 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199714DD00397
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 3 October 2007
30 m awayRef 200714B134707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 200514B071205 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 2005.