Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 19 July 1998 at 19:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 19:40 on Sunday 19 July 1998. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1998
- Sunday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67881, longitude -1.53732, 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
- 199813DA32098
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 638
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 19 April 2005.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 19 April 2005
14 m awayRef 2005130346005
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 18 May 1996
14 m awayRef 199613DA23496
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 17 May 1984
14 m awayRef 198413N021784
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 29 October 1981
14 m awayRef 198113N120181
Fatal
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 28 October 2015
19 m awayRef 2015132AS1122
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 20 April 1998
22 m awayRef 199813DA17798
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199813DA32098 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 1998.