Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 26 March 1985 at 20:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 20:50 on Tuesday 26 March 1985. A 15-year-old female passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were 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
- 26 Mar 1985
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65587, longitude -1.44693, in the WF2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513DB04985
- 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, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 2003.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 18 November 2003
32 m awayRef 2003131240803
Slight
Car crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 8 January 1995
36 m awayRef 199513DA00595
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 14 December 1999
36 m awayRef 199913DA57099
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 19 February 1995
42 m awayRef 199513DA06395
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 25 October 2014
44 m awayRef 2014131AP0648
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 3 December 1993
50 m awayRef 199313DA54293
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198513DB04985 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 1985.