Serious B6428 crash in Wakefield on 22 December 2000 at 18:35 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B6428 in Wakefield at 18:35 on Friday 22 December 2000. A 35-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64909, longitude -1.3691, in the WF4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000131369300
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6428
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 15 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130155900
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 26 November 2024
4 m awayRef 2024131521892
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 4 January 2006
10 m awayRef 2006130001906
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 9 February 2014
15 m awayRef 2014131290603
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 27 August 2024
20 m awayRef 2024131484385
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6428 in Wakefield, 16 March 1996
22 m awayRef 199613DC08696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2000131369300 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 2000.