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Serious unclassified road crash in Calderdale HX1 on 11 June 1987 at 14:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Calderdale at 14:30 on Thursday 11 June 1987. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Jun 1987
Thursday, 14:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72224, longitude -1.87524, in the HX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halifax.

Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198713FA15087
Council area
Calderdale
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Raining, 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 7 October 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198713FA15087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Calderdale road accident statistics for 1987.