Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 25 October 2018 at 17:58 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:58 on Thursday 25 October 2018. The 23-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Oct 2018
- Thursday, 17:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68148, longitude -1.51175, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield West, Wakefield, WF2 8DD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135AP1457
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 September 2016
8 m awayRef 20161339K1053
Slight
Wrightbus Gemini crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 13 August 2014
21 m awayRef 20141318D0345
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 30 December 1997
29 m awayRef 199713DA59397
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 27 August 1993
36 m awayRef 199313DA35493
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 May 1986
36 m awayRef 198613DA16286
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 14 February 1985
53 m awayRef 198513DA04885
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 23, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018135AP1457 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.