Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 5 July 2009 at 20:20 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 20:20 on Sunday 5 July 2009. A 4-year-old female 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 Jul 2009
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67596, longitude -1.54597, in the WF2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wakefield West, Wakefield, WF5 9BX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130549709
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1999.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 2 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199913DA35399
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 November 1996
32 m awayRef 199613DA51996
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 9 November 1980
63 m awayRef 198013N150180
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 15 March 1980
95 m awayRef 198013N033180
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 June 1997
100 m awayRef 199713DA23897
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 16 April 1991
100 m awayRef 199113DA11391
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2009130549709 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 2009.