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Serious A629 crash in Kirklees on 11 September 1985 at 16:10 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A629 in Kirklees at 16:10 on Wednesday 11 September 1985. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Sep 1985
Wednesday, 16:10
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59567, longitude -1.7076, in the HD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shepley and Shelley.

Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198513ED19285
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
629
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 198513ED19285 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.