Serious unclassified road crash in Barnsley S71 on 11 May 2017 at 20:13 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3, a motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 20:13 on Thursday 11 May 2017. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 May 2017
- Thursday, 20:13
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen C3 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57074, longitude -1.44267, in the S71 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Monk Bretton, Barnsley, S71 5RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017140183159
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2015.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on a C road in Barnsley, 4 May 2015
4 m awayRef 201514B039115
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 24 December 1981
6 m awayRef 198114B102345
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Barnsley, 31 December 2005
6 m awayRef 200514B186305
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Barnsley, 16 November 1996
6 m awayRef 199614DD00884
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 29 November 1980
6 m awayRef 198014B101957
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Barnsley, 23 February 2009
6 m awayRef 200914B023409
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017140183159 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 2017.