Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF1 on 3 September 2009 at 14:15 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 14:15 on Thursday 3 September 2009. A 74-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2009
- Thursday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70869, longitude -1.5035, in the WF1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wakefield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrenthorpe & Outwood West, Wakefield, WF1 2PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130731209
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 61
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198913DA19889
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 6 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199513DA01295
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 27 September 2001
10 m awayRef 2001131009801
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 1 October 1982
10 m awayRef 198213N049482
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 3 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198113N114581
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Wakefield, 5 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198413N000684
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2009130731209 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.