Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF2 on 13 September 2012 at 18:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 18:10 on Thursday 13 September 2012. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2012
- Thursday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67206, longitude -1.53708, 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, WF2 8LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130400378
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 6 April 2017
8 m awayRef 2017134470513
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 28 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198413N056684
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 18 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199513DA54295
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002130970102
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 25 April 2017
19 m awayRef 20171344P0980
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 30 August 1994
22 m awayRef 199413DA37094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- 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 2012130400378 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.