A616 crash in Barnsley on 3 July 2016 at 13:00 involving a Kia Sorento
A Kia Sorento and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A616 in Barnsley at 13:00 on Sunday 3 July 2016. The 42-year-old male driver of the Kia Sorento was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2016
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Sorento and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48406, longitude -1.53481, in the S35 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penistone East, Barnsley, S35 7DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016140085624
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 616
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 July 1996.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 1 July 1996
6 m awayRef 199614EE00531
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 10 April 2003
6 m awayRef 200314EE00286
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Barnsley, 6 October 2006
9 m awayRef 200614B131906
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 22 March 2010
9 m awayRef 201014B034610
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 7 October 2025
11 m awayRef 2025141651547
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A616 in Barnsley, 30 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199714EE00465
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sorento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Sorento)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016140085624 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 2016.