A61 crash in Barnsley on 30 April 2014 at 18:14 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo, a Fiat Panda and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A61 in Barnsley at 18:14 on Wednesday 30 April 2014. The 20-year-old male driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 18:14
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Berlingo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51176, longitude -1.48204, in the S70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birdwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rockingham, Barnsley, S70 5UZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201414B043814
- 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
- 40 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 18 April 1980
4 m awayRef 198014B200632
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 9 November 1985
4 m awayRef 198514B101813
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 4 May 2011
4 m awayRef 201114B042411
Slight
Volvo crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 26 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200014EE00417
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 11 September 2012
12 m awayRef 201214B085312
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 26 August 1996
21 m awayRef 199614EE00661
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- 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
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Panda
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Panda)
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 201414B043814 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 2014.