Serious A638 crash in Wakefield on 26 November 2004 at 08:44 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A638 in Wakefield at 08:44 on Friday 26 November 2004. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2004
- Friday, 08:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66929, longitude -1.4749, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield South, Wakefield, WF1 5JB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004131191904
- 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
- Single carriageway
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6389
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 20 July 2000.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 20 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130675900
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 22 May 2004
At the same spotRef 2004130488604
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 29 December 2003
At the same spotRef 2003131418403
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 27 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130391300
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 24 November 2004
At the same spotRef 2004131187704
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A638 in Wakefield, 2 January 2007
At the same spotRef 2007130020907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 2004131191904 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 2004.