Unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF8 on 24 December 2014 at 13:55 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 13:55 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. A 4-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69557, longitude -1.29357, in the WF8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontefract. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontefract North, Wakefield, WF8 2JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wakefield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131CO0740
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1997.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 11 March 1997
7 m awayRef 199713DC09397
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 21 November 1980
20 m awayRef 198013M135980
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 August 2007
28 m awayRef 2007130695807
Slight
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 3 June 2004
34 m awayRef 2004130542804
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 11 May 1993
37 m awayRef 199313DC15793
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 8 June 1994
41 m awayRef 199413DC20794
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2014131CO0740 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 2014.