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Serious A58 crash in Calderdale on 11 November 1997 at 19:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo

A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A58 in Calderdale at 19:35 on Tuesday 11 November 1997. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Nov 1997
Tuesday, 19:35
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Polo
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66883, longitude -1.97514, in the HX6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199713FD39997
Council area
Calderdale
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
58
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 21 May 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years
    Engine capacity
    1,043 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)

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 199713FD39997 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 1997.