B6422 crash in Wakefield on 3 December 1994 at 14:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and an Austin Metro were involved in a crash on the B6422 in Wakefield at 14:30 on Saturday 3 December 1994. The 21-year-old female driver of the Austin Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1994
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60447, longitude -1.34272, in the WF9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199413DC48094
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6422
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 1991.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 18 September 1991
14 m awayRef 199113DC23091
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 11 August 1996
32 m awayRef 199613DC29696
Serious
Bus crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 18 August 1985
36 m awayRef 198513DC21385
Slight
Car crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 10 February 1981
36 m awayRef 198113M015181
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 30 March 1991
42 m awayRef 199113DC06991
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 28 February 2019
45 m awayRef 2019136230227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
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 199413DC48094 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 1994.