Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 23 October 2007 at 14:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 14:30 on Tuesday 23 October 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
- 23 Oct 2007
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66469, longitude -1.49191, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield South, Wakefield, WF2 7LN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007130924607
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 13 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198613DA24986
Serious
Zastava Yugo crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 17 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199513DA22295
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198013N065980
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 5 November 2000
14 m awayRef 2000131169700
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198413N034484
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 26 February 2005
36 m awayRef 2005130175705
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), 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 2007130924607 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.