Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 22 November 2007 at 16:50 involving an MG ZR
A motorcycle and an MG ZR were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 16:50 on Thursday 22 November 2007. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70831, longitude -1.52017, in the WF2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrenthorpe & Outwood West, Wakefield, WF1 2PE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007131018507
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 650
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 20 January 2017
11 m awayRef 20171341K0936
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 16 May 1991
14 m awayRef 199113DA15891
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 31 December 2003
22 m awayRef 2003131423303
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 9 December 2018
23 m awayRef 2018135C90798
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 16 September 2020
30 m awayRef 20201379G1221
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A650 in Wakefield, 10 November 1992
32 m awayRef 199213DA40592
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2007131018507 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.