A6032 crash in Wakefield on 4 January 1997 at 11:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A6032 in Wakefield at 11:15 on Saturday 4 January 1997. The 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7275, longitude -1.35657, in the WF10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Castleford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199713DC00297
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6032
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2004.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 14 April 2004
14 m awayRef 2004130388704
Serious
Car crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 2 January 2012
14 m awayRef 2012130003014
Slight
Opel Rekord crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 4 April 1991
22 m awayRef 199113DB07191
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 28 October 2024
36 m awayRef 2024131510517
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 3 November 2006
41 m awayRef 2006131004006
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6032 in Wakefield, 29 July 2021
50 m awayRef 2021131072256
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199713DC00297 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.