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A62 crash in Kirklees on 26 February 1992 at 14:50 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry

An Iveco-Ford lorry hit a pedestrian on the A62 in Kirklees at 14:50 on Wednesday 26 February 1992. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Feb 1992
Wednesday, 14:50
Vehicles
1
Iveco-Ford
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64274, longitude -1.78079, in the HD1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield.

Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199213EA07392
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
62
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    60 years
    Engine capacity
    5,947 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Iveco-Ford)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199213EA07392 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 1992.