Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 3 August 1984 at 12:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 12:10 on Friday 3 August 1984. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Aug 1984
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68254, longitude -1.48292, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198413N034684
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1995.
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Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 August 1998
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198413N034684 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 1984.