Unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD3 on 1 August 2008 at 19:32 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 19:32 on Friday 1 August 2008. The 49-year-old male rider of the Honda 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
- 1 Aug 2008
- Friday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64517, longitude -1.84431, in the HD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008130656608
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198513EA35285
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 17 October 1987
40 m awayRef 198713EA44787
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 8 February 1994
40 m awayRef 199413EA07594
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 February 1979
50 m awayRef 197913Q024979
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 November 1990
50 m awayRef 199013EA50990
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 24 November 2007
50 m awayRef 2007131033207
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 2008130656608 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 2008.