Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 25 December 2004 at 20:19 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 20:19 on Saturday 25 December 2004. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 20:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6858, longitude -1.48908, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004131316004
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2002.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 7 June 2002
10 m awayRef 2002130632702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 15 December 1979
10 m awayRef 197913N165879
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 24 September 1981
10 m awayRef 198113N112681
Fatal
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 28 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199013DA16890
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 October 2009
20 m awayRef 2009130930609
Serious
Audi Q2 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 22 December 2023
21 m awayRef 2023131391397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2004131316004 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.