Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF5 on 24 February 2012 at 14:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 14:00 on Friday 24 February 2012. A 35-year-old female 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
- 24 Feb 2012
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68187, longitude -1.5886, in the WF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ossett. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ossett, Wakefield, WF5 9EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130085890
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 September 1993.
Serious
Volvo 245 crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 10 September 1993
At the same spotRef 199313DA39093
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 11 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199913DA55899
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198713DA11187
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 25 July 1979
10 m awayRef 197913N092079
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 20 August 2011
32 m awayRef 2011130384231
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 July 1984
32 m awayRef 198413N033384
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2012130085890 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 2012.