Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF4 on 19 March 1989 at 22:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 22:00 on Sunday 19 March 1989. A 59-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 1989
- Sunday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64761, longitude -1.37564, in the WF4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198913DC08789
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 638
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 November 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 26 November 1982
10 m awayRef 198213M052782
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 20 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198213M038082
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 20 February 1980
14 m awayRef 198013M023480
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 2 June 1999
14 m awayRef 199913DC17699
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 18 December 1986
20 m awayRef 198613DC33986
Serious
Lorry crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 5 October 1983
20 m awayRef 198313M041583
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198913DC08789 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.