Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF16 on 5 February 2000 at 10:40 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 10:40 on Saturday 5 February 2000. A 42-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2000
- Saturday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70731, longitude -1.67789, in the WF16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heckmondwike.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200013EC37100
- 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
- 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 22 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 22 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198913EB09189
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 December 2004
10 m awayRef 2004131263304
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 14 June 2025
36 m awayRef 2025131602810
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 19 November 1987
36 m awayRef 198713EB29087
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 November 1998
42 m awayRef 199813EC61998
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 January 2014
44 m awayRef 20141311G0421
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200013EC37100 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.