Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD9 on 24 July 2011 at 00:10
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 00:10 on Sunday 24 July 2011. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 2011
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59169, longitude -1.83997, in the HD9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Meltham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holme Valley North, Kirklees, HD9 5QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130338533
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2021.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 21 July 2021
28 m awayRef 2021131069479
Slight
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89 m awayRef 2025131546335
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 27 August 1999
94 m awayRef 199913EA59599
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 12 December 2002
100 m awayRef 2002131362902
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 14 February 2008
110 m awayRef 2008130140808
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 2 August 1980
112 m awayRef 198013Q140580
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other 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 2011130338533 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 2011.