A656 crash in Wakefield on 20 June 2024 at 11:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A656 in Wakefield at 11:20 on Thursday 20 June 2024. A 56-year-old male passenger in the car and a 57-year-old female passenger in the car were 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
- 20 Jun 2024
- Thursday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71246, longitude -1.33369, in the WF10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Castleford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castleford Central & Glasshoughton, Wakefield, WF10 4FR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024131457974
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 656
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A656 in Wakefield, 11 November 2023
5 m awayRef 2023131373437
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 12 November 2015
11 m awayRef 2015132BC1479
Slight
Hyundai Amica crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 28 July 2009
12 m awayRef 2009130616009
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 6 April 2012
17 m awayRef 2012130154303
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 11 October 1998
20 m awayRef 199813DC40098
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A639 in Wakefield, 25 February 1995
22 m awayRef 199513DC07295
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024131457974 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 2024.