Unclassified road crash in Wakefield S72 on 10 December 1989 at 19:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 19:20 on Sunday 10 December 1989. A 43-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1989
- Sunday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59806, longitude -1.35446, in the S72 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198913DC37489
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1991.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 26 April 1991
36 m awayRef 199113DC09291
Serious
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 29 May 1982
57 m awayRef 198213M021582
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 24 December 1979
64 m awayRef 197913M152879
Slight
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 23 December 1986
100 m awayRef 198613DC35586
Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,098 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198913DC37489 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.