Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 7 December 1985 at 02:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 02:38 on Saturday 7 December 1985. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1985
- Saturday, 02:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68226, longitude -1.50155, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513DA45185
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 642
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 24 December 2016
1 m awayRef 2016133CO0309
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 12 July 2021
4 m awayRef 2021131065057
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 1 July 2022
8 m awayRef 2022131194349
Serious
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 1 August 2014
10 m awayRef 2014131821498
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 15 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198513DA18685
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 22 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198913DA54989
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198513DA45185 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.