Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD5 on 22 May 1985 at 22:51 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 22:51 on Wednesday 22 May 1985. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 1985
- Wednesday, 22:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65836, longitude -1.7282, in the HD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkheaton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513ED10385
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 15 October 2019
5 m awayRef 2019136AF1374
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 27 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025131559212
Serious
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 1 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199113ED23591
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 17 May 1997
20 m awayRef 199713EA29997
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 14 April 1981
22 m awayRef 198113Q069981
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 2 November 1999
28 m awayRef 199913EA84399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 198513ED10385 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 1985.