Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 17 December 2019 at 08:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Fiat Doblo van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 08:20 on Tuesday 17 December 2019. The 28-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2019
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67383, longitude -1.48771, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield South, Wakefield, WF1 5JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019136CH0311
- 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
- Other junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 4 August 2022
4 m awayRef 2022131205827
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 23 December 1982
7 m awayRef 198213N066482
Slight
Iveco Stralis crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 30 April 2015
9 m awayRef 20151324U0175
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 3 May 1987
11 m awayRef 198713DA14587
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 16 March 2024
16 m awayRef 2024131421608
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 23 November 1997
17 m awayRef 199713DA52997
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Doblo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019136CH0311 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 2019.