Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF7 on 31 December 2014 at 17:42 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:42 on Wednesday 31 December 2014. The 24-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67609, longitude -1.35894, in the WF7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Featherstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Featherstone, Wakefield, WF7 5HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131CV0963
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1992.
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 14 February 1992
5 m awayRef 199213DC03992
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 10 January 2008
5 m awayRef 2008130018208
Serious
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 20 December 1984
5 m awayRef 198413M051484
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 19 May 1997
5 m awayRef 199713DC18197
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 May 2005
5 m awayRef 2005130486805
Slight
Car crash on the B6421 in Wakefield, 16 May 2005
5 m awayRef 2005130458905
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
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 2014131CV0963 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.