A6135 crash in Barnsley on 11 October 2011 at 20:08 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Kia Rio were involved in a crash on the A6135 in Barnsley at 20:08 on Tuesday 11 October 2011. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 32-year-old female driver of the Kia Rio were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2011
- Tuesday, 20:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49676, longitude -1.46558, in the S74 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hoyland. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201114B097811
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6135
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2007.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 31 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200714B179307
Slight
Car crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 7 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198214B201353
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Barnsley, 16 May 2014
8 m awayRef 201414B044714
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 26 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025141688187
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 16 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199914EE00820
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A6135 in Barnsley, 9 June 1998
10 m awayRef 199814EE00430
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Rio)
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 201114B097811 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 2011.