A638 crash in Wakefield on 8 April 1996 at 11:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Ford Sierra and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on the A638 in Wakefield at 11:45 on Monday 8 April 1996. The 26-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 1996
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67285, longitude -1.48546, 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
- 199613DA15896
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 638
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 23 August 1981.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 23 August 1981
10 m awayRef 198113N099281
Slight
Fiat Tempra crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 22 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199713DA16497
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 9 November 1990
14 m awayRef 199013DA42990
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 10 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198513DA00985
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 2 May 2024
18 m awayRef 2024131438494
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 14 May 1997
20 m awayRef 199713DA20897
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 199613DA15896 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.