Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD3 on 10 September 1987 at 09:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 09:50 on Thursday 10 September 1987. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 1987
- Thursday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65133, longitude -1.80934, in the HD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198713EA38687
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 640
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1995.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 20 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199513EA23995
Slight
Car crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 22 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198313Q081883
Slight
Bus crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 16 February 1980
At the same spotRef 198013Q033180
Slight
Volvo crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 21 September 2011
At the same spotRef 2011130435261
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 29 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199013EA55990
Serious
Car crash on the A640 in Kirklees, 4 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198813EA09588
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198713EA38687 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 1987.