Serious A61 crash in Barnsley on 19 February 2008 at 05:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A61 in Barnsley at 05:50 on Tuesday 19 February 2008. A 21-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49877, longitude -1.4743, in the S70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birdwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dodworth, Stainborough & Tankersley, Barnsley, S70 5FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200814B026808
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2009.
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Rover 75 crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 2 June 2009
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Ford Streetka crash on the A6195 in Barnsley, 2 May 2007
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 25 April 2003
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Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A619 in Barnsley, 1 August 2002
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Foden crash on the A6195 in Barnsley, 27 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200314EE00632
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A6195 in Barnsley, 27 September 2008
14 m awayRef 200814B118108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200814B026808 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 2008.