Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF14 on 1 July 1979 at 20:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 20:15 on Sunday 1 July 1979. The 9-year-old male cyclist 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
- 1 Jul 1979
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67051, longitude -1.69664, in the WF14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197913P085979
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 17 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199813EC65398
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 26 October 1989
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 21 December 2025
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 26 December 1987
22 m awayRef 198713EC24187
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199913EC43999
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 March 1997
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 9, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 197913P085979 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kirklees road accident statistics for 1979.