B6129 crash in Wakefield on 10 October 2018 at 16:00 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B6129 in Wakefield at 16:00 on Wednesday 10 October 2018. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 10 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69136, longitude -1.58903, in the WF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ossett. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dewsbury East, Kirklees, WF5 9QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135AB0317
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6129
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2013.
Slight
Wrightbus Gemini crash on the B6128 in Wakefield, 10 August 2013
13 m awayRef 2013130334501
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 18 August 2011
14 m awayRef 2011130382427
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6128 in Wakefield, 10 December 2007
14 m awayRef 2007131083607
Slight
Car crash on the B6128 in Wakefield, 14 October 1985
14 m awayRef 198513DA37985
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B6129 in Wakefield, 29 March 2017
15 m awayRef 20171343T0295
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 17 June 1985
16 m awayRef 198513DA19185
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018135AB0317 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 2018.