Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF4 on 1 April 1985 at 10:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 10:40 on Monday 1 April 1985. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 1985
- Monday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63263, longitude -1.52013, in the WF4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hall Green.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513DA10085
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2014.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 April 2014
8 m awayRef 2014131550560
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 10 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025131626947
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 August 2008
10 m awayRef 2008130665308
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 1 April 1989
14 m awayRef 198913DA13489
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 July 1985
22 m awayRef 198513DA24385
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 17 January 1979
28 m awayRef 197913N007079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, 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 198513DA10085 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 1985.