Serious A638 crash in Kirklees on 19 December 1987 at 19:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A638 in Kirklees at 19:50 on Saturday 19 December 1987. The 56-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1987
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7159, longitude -1.69631, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198713EB33087
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 638
- Road type
- Dual 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 23 October 1989
10 m awayRef 198913EB31789
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 27 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198513EB01685
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 7 July 2009
14 m awayRef 2009130542309
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 15 June 2001
14 m awayRef 2001130626501
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 23 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199713EC28297
Slight
Honda NE50M crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 6 September 1995
22 m awayRef 199513EC36695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 56, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198713EB33087 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.