B6422 crash in Wakefield on 8 January 2002 at 23:47 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B6422 in Wakefield at 23:47 on Tuesday 8 January 2002. The 20-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 8 Jan 2002
- Tuesday, 23:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59287, longitude -1.32688, in the WF9 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Elmsall & South Kirkby, Wakefield, WF9 3NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002130046802
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 24 October 1979
10 m awayRef 197913M116879
Serious
Car crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 6 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198513DC27085
Serious
Car crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 2 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198813DC37388
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 23 March 1995
20 m awayRef 199513DC11095
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 21 March 1992
22 m awayRef 199213DC06792
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6422 in Wakefield, 27 December 2002
36 m awayRef 2002131452902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2002130046802 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 2002.