Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 26 February 2000 at 15:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 15:30 on Saturday 26 February 2000. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and an 11-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2000
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6806, longitude -1.49217, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200013DA10300
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 61
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 28 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 28 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198913DA15989
Slight
Car crash on the A636 in Wakefield, 30 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198513DA44885
Slight
Leyland crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 4 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199713DA05497
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 15 July 2001
At the same spotRef 2001130735501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 27 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198713DA07187
Serious
Toyota Verso crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 7 May 2022
1 m awayRef 2022131173872
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200013DA10300 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.