A638 crash in Wakefield on 29 June 2011 at 20:10 involving a Seat Leon
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2011
- Wednesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61482, longitude -1.29902, in the WF9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130317701
- 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
- 50 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2001.
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 8 January 2001
10 m awayRef 2001130036801
Slight
Van crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 11 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198513DC28085
Slight
Scania crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 23 May 2006
10 m awayRef 2006130463806
Fatal
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 27 August 1979
54 m awayRef 197913M094579
Serious
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 22 September 2023
55 m awayRef 2023131362228
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 3 July 1990
64 m awayRef 199013DC18790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2011130317701 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 2011.