Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF8 on 4 March 1989 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 16:30 on Saturday 4 March 1989. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 1989
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6937, longitude -1.29181, in the WF8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontefract.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198913DC07289
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1984.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 16 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198413M002384
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 January 1980
51 m awayRef 198013M003780
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 27 November 1986
54 m awayRef 198613DC31386
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 5 January 2003
61 m awayRef 2003130008803
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 April 2000
72 m awayRef 2000130222300
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 December 1993
78 m awayRef 199313DC47293
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 198913DC07289 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 1989.