A642 crash in Wakefield on 14 April 1992 at 14:45 involving a Bristol (BLMC) bus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 1992
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bristol (BLMC)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68217, longitude -1.50109, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199213DA13292
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 642
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2000.
Slight
Scania crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 16 September 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130923100
Slight
Bus crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 28 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197913N096279
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 18 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199213DA36392
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 8 July 2006
At the same spotRef 2006130615906
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 25 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025131695776
Slight
BMW X6 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 July 2019
6 m awayRef 2019136790937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bristol (BLMC)
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bristol (BLMC))
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 199213DA13292 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 1992.