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Serious A6026 crash in Calderdale on 16 August 1996 at 18:05 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A6026 in Calderdale at 18:05 on Friday 16 August 1996. The 46-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Aug 1996
Friday, 18:05
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69876, longitude -1.85729, in the HX3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199613FA26796
Council area
Calderdale
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6026
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered 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 18 February 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 46, 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 199613FA26796 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 1996.