B6273 crash in Wakefield on 14 September 2010 at 08:00 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series, a car and a BMW Z3 were involved in a crash on the B6273 in Wakefield at 08:00 on Tuesday 14 September 2010. The 57-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2010
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 400 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63991, longitude -1.383, in the WF9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemsworth, Wakefield, WF9 5FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010130006040
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6273
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2014.
Slight
Honda S2000 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 March 2014
5 m awayRef 20141313M1383
Slight
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 20 November 1979
32 m awayRef 197913M132479
Slight
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 9 September 1988
50 m awayRef 198813DC27088
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 September 1990
51 m awayRef 199013DC25190
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 16 December 2019
66 m awayRef 2019136CG1524
Fatal
Car crash on the B6273 in Wakefield, 25 September 1988
89 m awayRef 198813DC28288
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: BMW Z3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, 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 2010130006040 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 2010.