B6422 crash in Wakefield on 29 October 1998 at 16:54 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6422 in Wakefield at 16:54 on Thursday 29 October 1998. The 16-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle 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
- 29 Oct 1998
- Thursday, 16:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59465, longitude -1.30767, in the WF9 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Kirkby.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199813DC42898
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6422
- 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
- Unclassified
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 slight injury crash on 22 February 2003.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 February 2003
At the same spotRef 2003130210403
Serious
Scania crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 10 May 2010
At the same spotRef 2010130003454
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 7 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001131330601
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 March 2013
7 m awayRef 2013130104407
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 11 November 2019
9 m awayRef 2019136BB1262
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 30 August 2019
9 m awayRef 20191368U1215
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 199813DC42898 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.