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Serious B6120 crash in Kirklees on 7 April 1995 at 23:30 involving a Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle

A Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle crashed on the B6120 in Kirklees at 23:30 on Friday 7 April 1995. The 23-year-old male rider and a 22-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Apr 1995
Friday, 23:30
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki KH125
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72967, longitude -1.74047, in the BD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scholes.

Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199513EC15795
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
6120
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KH125

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KH125)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KH125)

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 199513EC15795 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 1995.