Serious A638 crash in Wakefield on 15 December 2010 at 10:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A638 in Wakefield at 10:35 on Wednesday 15 December 2010. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2010
- Wednesday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6829, longitude -1.55165, in the WF5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield West, Wakefield, WF5 9BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010130535103
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 638
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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 17 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 17 October 2009
At the same spotRef 2009130854809
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 25 March 2009
At the same spotRef 2009130234209
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 5 October 2015
9 m awayRef 2015132A50324
Slight
Audi RS4 crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 8 March 2015
9 m awayRef 2015132380742
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 6 March 2020
10 m awayRef 2020137360198
Slight
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 31 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025131637001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2010130535103 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.