B6475 crash in Wakefield on 17 September 1997 at 20:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B6475 in Wakefield at 20:15 on Wednesday 17 September 1997. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 1997
- Wednesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66952, longitude -1.50548, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199713DA40497
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6475
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 636
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 January 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A636 in Wakefield, 11 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198413N001584
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A636 in Wakefield, 9 November 2002
At the same spotRef 2002131196502
Slight
Smart City crash on the B6475 in Wakefield, 2 March 2004
At the same spotRef 2004130213804
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the B6475 in Wakefield, 3 April 2024
1 m awayRef 2024131428291
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A636 in Wakefield, 21 September 2000
10 m awayRef 2000130941500
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A636 in Wakefield, 14 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198113N116381
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199713DA40497 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 1997.