Unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD3 on 13 December 1997 at 16:05 involving an Isuzu Trooper
An Isuzu Trooper hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 16:05 on Saturday 13 December 1997. An 84-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1997
- Saturday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Isuzu Trooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66054, longitude -1.83668, in the HD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199713EA80797
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Isuzu Trooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Isuzu Trooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199713EA80797 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 1997.