B6378 crash in Wakefield on 11 December 1998 at 08:00 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the B6378 in Wakefield at 08:00 on Friday 11 December 1998. The 29-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406 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
- 11 Dec 1998
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65124, longitude -1.45653, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walton.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199813DA57398
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6378
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 23 May 2000
28 m awayRef 2000130366000
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 26 July 2025
29 m awayRef 2025131623608
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 26 August 2010
36 m awayRef 2010130006090
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 16 November 2009
45 m awayRef 2009130957009
Slight
Proton Persona crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 20 July 1997
64 m awayRef 199713DA32297
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 23 August 1979
64 m awayRef 197913N102379
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
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 199813DA57398 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.