Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 17 November 2016 at 15:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 15:30 on Thursday 17 November 2016. A 57-year-old female passenger was 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
- 17 Nov 2016
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68234, longitude -1.49403, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield North, Wakefield, WF1 1AP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016133BH1242
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2017.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 December 2017
1 m awayRef 2017134CS0777
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 13 May 1989
5 m awayRef 198913DA18489
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 November 2006
7 m awayRef 2006131010906
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 19 January 1996
7 m awayRef 199613DA02796
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 March 1998
9 m awayRef 199813DA13298
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199813DA26998
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 56 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016133BH1242 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.