Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF15 on 6 November 1981 at 19:00 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 19:00 on Friday 6 November 1981. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1981
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70259, longitude -1.72973, in the WF15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liversedge.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198113P133181
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 24 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199213EB02492
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 24 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199313EC25093
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 29 July 1984
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 6 September 2000
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Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 29 November 2022
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 29 September 1979
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 198113P133181 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 1981.