B6129 crash in Wakefield on 18 March 1999 at 13:00 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
A car and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on the B6129 in Wakefield at 13:00 on Thursday 18 March 1999. The 38-year-old male driver of the car and a 38-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 1999
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68577, longitude -1.57388, in the WF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ossett.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199913DA11699
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6129
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 5 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198613DA20386
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 20 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199713DA52597
Serious
Lorry crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 12 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198913DA01089
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 5 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199613DA55096
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 5 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199313DA43293
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 10 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199413DA10294
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 199913DA11699 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 1999.