Metropolitan borough · England
Barnsley road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,435 injury collisions in Barnsley's highway authority area, 520 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,435
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,973
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 25
- 495 serious, 915 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 41%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Barnsley recorded 0 fatal or serious collisions, 100% below its average of 104 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 112 | 237 | 354 | 485 |
117
|
| 2022 | 7 | 106 | 198 | 311 | 430 |
113
|
| 2023 | 8 | 134 | 229 | 371 | 508 |
142
|
| 2024 | 5 | 143 | 251 | 399 | 550 |
148
|
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0
|
| 2021–2025 | 25 | 495 | 915 | 1,435 | 1,973 | 520 |
Casualties by road user
1,973 people were hurt in these collisions: 28 killed, 566 seriously injured and 1,379 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 41% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 279 | 14.1% | 108 | 18.2% |
| Pedal cyclists | 103 | 5.2% | 48 | 8.1% |
| Motorcyclists | 164 | 8.3% | 90 | 15.2% |
| All road users | 1,973 | 100% | 594 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Barnsley, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A628 125 collisions · 33 fatal or serious
- A61 102 collisions · 42 fatal or serious
- A635 93 collisions · 36 fatal or serious
- A6195 67 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- M1 56 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A633 53 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A616 49 collisions · 20 fatal or serious
- B6096 29 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- B6428 26 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A629 23 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
Areas within Barnsley
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Barnsley
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Barnsley's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.