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A643 crash in Kirklees on 1 February 1990 at 07:30 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A643 in Kirklees at 07:30 on Thursday 1 February 1990. The 40-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Feb 1990
Thursday, 07:30
Vehicles
2
Car and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73155, longitude -1.66695, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley.

Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199013EB03590
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
643
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
652

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights unlit
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 16 November 1998.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 40, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 199013EB03590 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 1990.