Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD1 on 28 December 2005 at 09:53 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 09:53 on Wednesday 28 December 2005. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 09:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64589, longitude -1.78274, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005131203805
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 January 2007
At the same spotRef 2007130003307
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 5 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198113Q081981
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 27 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198913EA23989
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 14 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198613EA30886
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 15 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198713EA43087
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 June 2011
At the same spotRef 2011130281797
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2005131203805 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 2005.