A652 crash in Kirklees on 19 February 2003 at 11:35 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
A car and an Aprilia motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A652 in Kirklees at 11:35 on Wednesday 19 February 2003. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle 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
- 19 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71255, longitude -1.62709, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Batley East, Kirklees, WF17 5EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003130197703
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 652
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2002.
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 30 December 2002
10 m awayRef 2002131445502
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 2 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198713EB00287
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 11 November 1980
10 m awayRef 198013P147580
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 6 March 2010
14 m awayRef 2010130001599
Slight
Van crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 23 June 1992
14 m awayRef 199213EB15792
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 8 February 2014
19 m awayRef 2014131280905
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia)
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 2003130197703 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 2003.