Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF11 on 18 May 2007 at 17:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 17:40 on Friday 18 May 2007. A 14-year-old male pedestrian 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
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2007
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7087, longitude -1.27595, in the WF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holmfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knottingley & Ferrybridge, Wakefield, WF11 8PJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007130417307
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 25 June 1981
10 m awayRef 198113M071881
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199513DC19095
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 2 July 1981
91 m awayRef 198113M074481
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 June 1995
92 m awayRef 199513DC23395
Serious
Honda C90E crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 1 August 1993
95 m awayRef 199313DC26793
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 26 July 2003
100 m awayRef 2003130834903
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2007130417307 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 2007.