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M606 crash in Kirklees on 24 December 1979 at 19:25 involving a car

A car crashed on the M606 in Kirklees at 19:25 on Monday 24 December 1979. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy one-way street or slip road with a 50 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Dec 1979
Monday, 19:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73656, longitude -1.72603, in the BD19 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197913P169979
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
606
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
50 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2013.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 197913P169979 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.