Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF8 on 30 January 1999 at 17:09 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:09 on Saturday 30 January 1999. A 15-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
- 30 Jan 1999
- Saturday, 17:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68441, longitude -1.30271, 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
- 199913DC03099
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 19 March 1992
14 m awayRef 199213DC06292
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 24 March 2023
16 m awayRef 2023131290278
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 15 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198813DC35788
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 September 1991
22 m awayRef 199113DC23391
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 26 March 1986
22 m awayRef 198613DC06486
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 7 May 1985
22 m awayRef 198513DC10885
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, 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 199913DC03099 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.