A642 crash in Wakefield on 13 April 2016 at 08:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Piaggio Zip motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A642 in Wakefield at 08:10 on Wednesday 13 April 2016. The 16-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Zip motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2016
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65585, longitude -1.58211, in the WF4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20161334D0225
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 642
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6117
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 10 May 2021
2 m awayRef 2021131043635
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 7 March 2020
3 m awayRef 2020137370815
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 23 November 2017
3 m awayRef 2017134BN1202
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 19 July 2019
3 m awayRef 20191367J0879
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 25 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025131646859
Serious
Lexmoto LXS crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 28 July 2023
6 m awayRef 2023131334424
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Zip)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 20161334D0225 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 2016.