A629 crash in Kirklees on 11 November 2002 at 18:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A629 in Kirklees at 18:25 on Monday 11 November 2002. The 35-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 2002
- Monday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64416, longitude -1.77427, in the HD1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton, Kirklees, HD1 2DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002131214802
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 629
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6432
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 11 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198313Q015183
Slight
Car crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 27 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198413Q010184
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 3 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199813EA28898
Slight
Car crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 29 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198713EA57287
Slight
Car crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 16 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198313Q016483
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A629 in Kirklees, 31 July 2004
At the same spotRef 2004130735204
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2002131214802 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 2002.