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Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF6 on 12 January 1999 at 08:35 involving a Fiat Punto

A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 08:35 on Tuesday 12 January 1999. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Jan 1999
Tuesday, 08:35
Vehicles
1
Fiat Punto
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71042, longitude -1.42667, in the WF6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Normanton.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199913DA02299
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
Rural
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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    53 years
    Engine capacity
    1,242 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing

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 199913DA02299 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 1999.