B6273 crash in Barnsley on 17 February 2018 at 18:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the B6273 in Barnsley at 18:50 on Saturday 17 February 2018. A 9-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2018
- Saturday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57654, longitude -1.35405, in the S72 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018140275506
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6273
- 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
- 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, 104 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B6273 in Barnsley, 29 December 2005
104 m awayRef 200514B185205
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6273 in Barnsley, 16 March 2002
125 m awayRef 200214EE00223
Serious
Car crash on the B6273 in Barnsley, 25 November 2025
143 m awayRef 2025141673745
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B6131 in Barnsley, 9 June 1994
150 m awayRef 199414B100839
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the B6273 in Barnsley, 7 April 2009
171 m awayRef 200914B037909
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley, 22 January 2010
186 m awayRef 201014B009810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018140275506 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 2018.