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A638 crash in Wakefield on 10 November 2002 at 02:23 involving a Toyota Carina taxi

A Toyota Carina taxi hit a pedestrian on the A638 in Wakefield at 02:23 on Sunday 10 November 2002. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
10 Nov 2002
Sunday, 02:23
Vehicles
1
Toyota Carina
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67844, longitude -1.49175, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield North, Wakefield, WF1 1AP area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2002131197802
Council area
Wakefield
Police force
West Yorkshire
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
638
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
61

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, 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 2002131197802 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 2002.