Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF8 on 18 December 2011 at 17:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:45 on Sunday 18 December 2011. The 29-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70217, longitude -1.2962, in the WF8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontefract. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontefract North, Wakefield, WF8 2JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130576944
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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 slight injury crash on 16 November 2006.
Slight
Peugeot Trekker crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 16 November 2006
At the same spotRef 2006131056506
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 19 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198513DC09485
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 10 March 2006
At the same spotRef 2006130215606
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198213M055682
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 18 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198713DC18587
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199913DC29999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 2011130576944 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.