Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF10 on 7 August 2004 at 07:07 involving a Volvo S80
A Volvo S80 crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 07:07 on Saturday 7 August 2004. The 55-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2004
- Saturday, 07:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73167, longitude -1.31542, in the WF10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airedale & Ferry Fryston, Wakefield, WF10 2NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004130764304
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 August 2012.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 August 2012
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Slight
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MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 September 2012
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 24 December 1990
32 m awayRef 199013DB27690
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 1 November 1991
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Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 2 December 2003
32 m awayRef 2003131311003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S80)
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 2004130764304 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 2004.