Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF8 on 11 November 1994 at 18:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 18:45 on Friday 11 November 1994. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 1994
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69101, longitude -1.29262, in the WF8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontefract.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199413DC44294
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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 9 September 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199213DC23392
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 18 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199313DC37193
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 17 October 1987
20 m awayRef 198713DC28387
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 29 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199113DC35391
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 April 1983
22 m awayRef 198313M015583
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 January 1990
22 m awayRef 199013DC02690
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199413DC44294 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 1994.