A616 crash in Barnsley on 28 February 2015 at 22:30 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 crashed on the A616 in Barnsley at 22:30 on Saturday 28 February 2015. The 45-year-old male driver and a 40-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 911
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53241, longitude -1.71217, in the S36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201514B021415
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 616
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1996.
Slight
Bus crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 28 July 1996
4 m awayRef 199614EE00619
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 26 April 2024
6 m awayRef 2024141436187
Serious
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 14 August 2005
12 m awayRef 200514B113105
Serious
Fiat Doblo crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 25 February 2011
12 m awayRef 201114B019211
Slight
Car crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 11 June 1985
18 m awayRef 198514B200910
Serious
Car crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 29 October 1985
18 m awayRef 198514B201725
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
- 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 201514B021415 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 2015.