Unclassified road crash in Barnsley S63 on 17 September 2015 at 14:05 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Suzuki EN 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 14:05 on Thursday 17 September 2015. The 17-year-old male rider of the Suzuki EN 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2015
- Thursday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Suzuki EN 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51593, longitude -1.32399, in the S63 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bolton upon Dearne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dearne South, Barnsley, S63 8NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201514B083615
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2005.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Barnsley, 28 December 2007
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Barnsley, 14 December 2000
18 m awayRef 200014EE00902
Slight
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21 m awayRef 2025141602568
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Barnsley, 21 June 2007
22 m awayRef 200714B084107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki EN 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki EN 125)
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 201514B083615 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.