Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF10 on 16 April 2011 at 18:40 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 18:40 on Saturday 16 April 2011. A 13-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 junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72544, longitude -1.30976, in the WF10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Castleford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airedale & Ferry Fryston, Wakefield, WF10 3ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130178009
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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 serious injury crash on 5 June 1995.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 5 June 1995
14 m awayRef 199513DC20895
Serious
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 10 November 2011
22 m awayRef 2011130516805
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 November 1993
45 m awayRef 199313DC39193
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 2 December 1979
45 m awayRef 197913M138779
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 4 January 2004
45 m awayRef 2004130050704
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 6 January 2011
51 m awayRef 2011130007662
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- 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 2011130178009 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 2011.