Serious A61 crash in Wakefield on 25 September 1993 at 20:00 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 hit two pedestrians on the A61 in Wakefield at 20:00 on Saturday 25 September 1993. A 67-year-old male pedestrian and a 67-year-old female pedestrian were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Sep 1993
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 21
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65067, longitude -1.49027, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199313DA41293
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 13 July 1980
At the same spotRef 198013N091280
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 28 May 2012
At the same spotRef 2012130233345
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 4 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199913DA49299
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 20 December 2017
9 m awayRef 2017134CK0731
Slight
BMW X1 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 June 2020
10 m awayRef 20201376N1903
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 2 October 2014
13 m awayRef 2014131A21217
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault 21)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault 21)
- 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 199313DA41293 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 1993.