Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 16 March 1996 at 22:55 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 22:55 on Saturday 16 March 1996. A 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1996
- Saturday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68234, longitude -1.49958, 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
- 199613DA13096
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, street lights lit
- 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 25 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 25 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198913DA49289
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 7 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198813DA32088
Slight
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Slight
Peugeot 5008 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 June 2018
17 m awayRef 20181356L1341
Slight
Bus crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 1 September 1980
20 m awayRef 198013N113680
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 24 December 2004
20 m awayRef 2004131313704
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 199613DA13096 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 1996.