Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF5 on 5 September 2005 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:15 on Monday 5 September 2005. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2005
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67772, longitude -1.58456, in the WF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ossett. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ossett, Wakefield, WF5 8AZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005130792005
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 December 1992.
Serious
Rover 2000 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 14 December 1992
50 m awayRef 199213DA47492
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Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 30 June 1999
58 m awayRef 199913DA28899
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 November 2023
102 m awayRef 2023131378886
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 4 February 1982
117 m awayRef 198213N005282
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 June 1983
117 m awayRef 198313N031383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2005130792005 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 2005.