B6378 crash in Wakefield on 8 November 2004 at 22:05 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B6378 in Wakefield at 22:05 on Monday 8 November 2004. The 20-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2004
- Monday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65248, longitude -1.45348, in the WF2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004131125404
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6378
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 24 March 1984
54 m awayRef 198413N012384
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 10 October 1998
89 m awayRef 199813DA43898
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 13 August 1994
89 m awayRef 199413DA33994
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 26 July 1999
108 m awayRef 199913DA33099
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 26 February 1992
125 m awayRef 199213DA07792
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 3 January 1997
139 m awayRef 199713DA00197
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 2004131125404 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.