Serious B6273 crash in Wakefield on 23 December 1997 at 16:25 involving a Peugeot 405
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62492, longitude -1.36796, in the WF9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fitzwilliam and Kinsley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199713DC51997
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6273
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B6373 in Wakefield, 6 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198513DC00685
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 17 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197913M071279
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 2 August 1980
10 m awayRef 198013M084580
Slight
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 1 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198813DC31188
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 22 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199813DC11098
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 25 July 2025
12 m awayRef 2025131620832
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199713DC51997 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.