Serious A62 crash in Kirklees on 10 November 2011 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A62 in Kirklees at 17:00 on Thursday 10 November 2011. The 22-year-old female rider of the Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Nov 2011
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha NXC 125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74361, longitude -1.64365, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morley North, Leeds, LS27 7FP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130524593
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 23 September 2002.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 23 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002131001102
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 7 May 2000
10 m awayRef 2000130309800
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 13 August 2005
10 m awayRef 2005130723905
Slight
Car crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 4 September 2010
10 m awayRef 2010130370951
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 24 August 2012
10 m awayRef 2012130375694
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 12 February 2001
10 m awayRef 2001130176201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha NXC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha NXC 125)
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 2011130524593 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.