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A640 crash in Kirklees on 9 June 1996 at 12:15 involving a Volvo 440

A Volvo 440 and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A640 in Kirklees at 12:15 on Sunday 9 June 1996. The 36-year-old male driver of the Volvo 440 and the 31-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle were slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
9 Jun 1996
Sunday, 12:15
Vehicles
2
Volvo 440 and Suzuki
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64996, longitude -1.79542, 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
199613EA35296
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
640
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1986.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 440

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    1,998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

  • Vehicle 2: Suzuki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    748 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 440)

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)

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 199613EA35296 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 1996.