Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF7 on 20 June 2009 at 21:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 21:30 on Saturday 20 June 2009. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 2009
- Saturday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67279, longitude -1.34604, in the WF7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Featherstone.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130510109
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2008.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 November 2008
At the same spotRef 2008130952708
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198813DC28188
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 30 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199713DC43897
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 10 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199713DC50697
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 28 May 1985
32 m awayRef 198513DC12885
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 19 January 2002
61 m awayRef 2002130092902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2009130510109 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 2009.