A61 crash in Barnsley on 11 December 2012 at 13:28 involving a Nissan Qashqai
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 13:28
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Qashqai and 2 others
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.56672, longitude -1.4721, 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 2AD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201214B114912
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 14 November 2014
5 m awayRef 201414B113514
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 11 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198514B100067
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 23 February 1989
20 m awayRef 198914B100410
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 28 March 1997
30 m awayRef 199714DD00254
Slight
Fiat Marea crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 24 February 2012
41 m awayRef 201214B017412
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 21 December 2009
51 m awayRef 200914B149809
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 308)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 308)
- 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 201214B114912 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 2012.