Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF7 on 31 August 1984 at 22:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 22:42 on Friday 31 August 1984. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 1984
- Friday, 22:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66554, longitude -1.3507, in the WF7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198413M033384
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 21 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005131071905
Slight
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 23 February 1979
28 m awayRef 197913M024479
Slight
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 3 October 1981
36 m awayRef 198113M109881
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 30 November 1982
45 m awayRef 198213M053882
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 9 March 2022
45 m awayRef 2022131151964
Slight
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 5 February 1979
57 m awayRef 197913M013879
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198413M033384 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wakefield road accident statistics for 1984.