Unclassified road crash in Barnsley S73 on 17 April 2018 at 16:15 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnsley at 16:15 on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The 47-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Urban was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2018
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Urban and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.5421, longitude -1.39197, in the S73 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018140289628
- Council area
- Barnsley
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 635
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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 2007.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 11 September 2007
1 m awayRef 200714B123507
Fatal
Car crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 3 May 1989
1 m awayRef 198914B200762
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 11 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020140971560
Slight
MGB R8 crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 14 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025141589786
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 24 August 1997
11 m awayRef 199714EE00581
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A635 in Barnsley, 13 September 2008
11 m awayRef 200814B110408
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
- 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 2018140289628 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.