Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 23 September 2007 at 01:15 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 01:15 on Sunday 23 September 2007. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 2007
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64982, longitude -1.46198, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007130840607
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6378
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 20 April 1998
14 m awayRef 199813DA17698
Slight
Car crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 21 June 1983
22 m awayRef 198313N031483
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 31 August 2012
22 m awayRef 2012130379365
Slight
Scooter crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 22 August 1981
36 m awayRef 198113N099381
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 14 October 2009
41 m awayRef 2009130860509
Slight
Car crash on the B6378 in Wakefield, 4 September 1982
64 m awayRef 198213N043482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2007130840607 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 2007.