A645 crash in Wakefield on 14 December 2018 at 06:00 involving a Volkswagen Crafter van
A Volkswagen Crafter van and a Hyundai ix20 were involved in a crash on the A645 in Wakefield at 06:00 on Friday 14 December 2018. The 43-year-old female driver of the Hyundai ix20 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2018
- Friday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Crafter and Hyundai ix20
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.665, longitude -1.43536, in the WF4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crofton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crofton, Ryhill & Walton, Wakefield, WF4 1SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135CE0245
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 645
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 645
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
- Frost or ice
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2002.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 1 June 2002
10 m awayRef 2002130606802
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 3 February 1983
13 m awayRef 198313N008483
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A645 in Wakefield, 1 April 1985
16 m awayRef 198513DB05085
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 15 June 2015
21 m awayRef 20151326F1804
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 2 May 1982
34 m awayRef 198213N019782
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A645 in Wakefield, 9 March 1993
34 m awayRef 199313DA09993
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Crafter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai ix20
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai ix20)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018135CE0245 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.