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Unclassified road crash in Calderdale HD6 on 23 January 1988 at 11:45 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Calderdale at 11:45 on Saturday 23 January 1988. The 31-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Jan 1988
Saturday, 11:45
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71115, longitude -1.7871, in the HD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighouse.

Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198813FB01088
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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2003.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    45 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 31, 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 198813FB01088 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 1988.