Unclassified road crash in Calderdale OL14 on 15 January 1983 at 10:45 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Calderdale at 10:45 on Saturday 15 January 1983. The 36-year-old male driver of the car, a 27-year-old female passenger in the car and the 39-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 1983
- Saturday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70692, longitude -2.07268, in the OL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198313A003383
- Council area
- Calderdale
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 198313A003383 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Calderdale road accident statistics for 1983.