A642 crash in Wakefield on 18 November 2009 at 08:05 involving a Toyota IQ
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2009
- Wednesday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota IQ and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69055, longitude -1.4866, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield East, Wakefield, WF1 4AP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130961609
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 642
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 1995.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 18 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199513DA38495
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 19 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198513DA19385
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 23 December 2004
At the same spotRef 2004131303704
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 6 November 2023
9 m awayRef 2023131371353
Serious
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 1 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198913DA24789
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 15 November 1979
10 m awayRef 197913N143879
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota IQ
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2009130961609 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.