A61 crash in Wakefield on 5 July 2014 at 11:30 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini and a car were involved in a crash on the A61 in Wakefield at 11:30 on Saturday 5 July 2014. An 88-year-old female passenger in the Wrightbus Gemini and an 87-year-old female passenger in the Wrightbus Gemini were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2014
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Wrightbus Gemini and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65824, longitude -1.4832, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield South, Wakefield, WF2 7LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131751260
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- 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
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2025.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 22 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025131672044
Serious
Bus crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 6 November 1995
7 m awayRef 199513DA51495
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 2 August 2019
11 m awayRef 2019136820842
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 18 November 2022
11 m awayRef 2022131244128
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 20 May 1984
11 m awayRef 198413N022384
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 28 March 2015
13 m awayRef 20151323S1126
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 88, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 87, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2014131751260 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 2014.