Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF17 on 7 October 2000 at 12:13 involving a Volvo 460
A car, a Volvo 460 and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 12:13 on Saturday 7 October 2000. The 46-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2000
- Saturday, 12:13
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volvo 460 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70302, longitude -1.62506, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000131029400
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2010.
Slight
Honda CRX crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 27 July 2010
10 m awayRef 2010130312131
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 6 February 1997
14 m awayRef 199713EC05097
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 December 2002
14 m awayRef 2002131437802
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 January 2025
17 m awayRef 2025131548471
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 19 May 1985
20 m awayRef 198513EB10685
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 March 1993
20 m awayRef 199313EC08393
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 460
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 2000131029400 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 2000.