A1 crash in Wakefield on 29 November 2001 at 10:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A1 in Wakefield at 10:25 on Thursday 29 November 2001. The 18-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2001
- Thursday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67472, longitude -1.26124, in the WF8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontefract South, Wakefield, WF8 3DG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001131296501
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2008.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 27 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008130448108
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 29 August 2006
20 m awayRef 2006130770306
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 4 December 2025
31 m awayRef 2025131679135
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 16 May 2007
40 m awayRef 2007130417007
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 July 1999
41 m awayRef 199913DC24299
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 6 January 2001
41 m awayRef 2001130030201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2001131296501 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 2001.