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A62 crash in Kirklees on 28 February 2004 at 22:00 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A62 in Kirklees at 22:00 on Saturday 28 February 2004. The 55-year-old male driver of the bus or coach and a 20-year-old female passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Feb 2004
Saturday, 22:00
Vehicles
2
Bus or coach and taxi
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64319, longitude -1.78608, 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
2004130203804
Council area
Kirklees
Police force
West Yorkshire
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
62
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
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
2%
Estimated chance it was slight
98%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2018.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years

  • Vehicle 2: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 20, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)

    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 2004130203804 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 2004.