Unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD7 on 5 October 1987 at 15:34 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 15:34 on Monday 5 October 1987. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1987
- Monday, 15:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62559, longitude -1.84755, in the HD7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Linthwaite and Slaithwaite.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198713ED21787
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1982.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 September 1982
14 m awayRef 198213Q068882
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 29 April 2025
21 m awayRef 2025131584041
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 19 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198813ED23888
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 12 February 1993
22 m awayRef 199313EA09693
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 25 November 1994
22 m awayRef 199413EA66194
Slight
Kawasaki KMX125 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 February 1990
28 m awayRef 199013ED04490
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, 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 198713ED21787 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.