Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 6 October 1997 at 08:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 08:50 on Monday 6 October 1997. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1997
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71267, longitude -1.50907, 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
- 199713DA42597
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 12 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198213N022382
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 26 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198013N179680
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198413N061784
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 5 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008131129308
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 January 2001
At the same spotRef 2001130034801
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 September 2024
7 m awayRef 2024131494347
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199713DA42597 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 1997.