A639 crash in Wakefield on 6 August 2020 at 19:00 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the A639 in Wakefield at 19:00 on Thursday 6 August 2020. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Insignia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2020
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6855, longitude -1.31244, in the WF8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontefract. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontefract North, Wakefield, WF8 1DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020137861639
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 639
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2023.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 6 May 2023
3 m awayRef 2023131304740
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 19 July 1999
4 m awayRef 199913DC21799
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 20 September 1996
4 m awayRef 199613DC35196
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 2 August 1993
4 m awayRef 199313DC26893
Slight
Car crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 12 September 1988
4 m awayRef 198813DC27388
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 16 August 1999
4 m awayRef 199913DC26599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2020137861639 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 2020.