Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF4 on 13 December 2016 at 19:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mercedes ML Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 19:00 on Tuesday 13 December 2016. The 40-year-old male driver of the Mercedes ML Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65541, longitude -1.54397, in the WF4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horbury.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016133CD1333
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 1985.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 11 February 1985
7 m awayRef 198513DA04485
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 6 February 1984
8 m awayRef 198413N005484
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 4 December 1981
17 m awayRef 198113N128881
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 28 September 1981
27 m awayRef 198113N113981
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 19 November 1979
27 m awayRef 197913N149879
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 December 2007
49 m awayRef 2007131150707
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes ML Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016133CD1333 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.