Unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD5 on 26 December 2011 at 15:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 15:45 on Monday 26 December 2011. The 20-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2011
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64858, longitude -1.73522, in the HD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalton, Kirklees, HD5 9TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011130587352
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2021.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 September 2021
5 m awayRef 2021131093732
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 September 1983
10 m awayRef 198313Q057183
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 5 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198413Q063484
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197913Q120179
Serious
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 September 2001
22 m awayRef 2001130987501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 15 August 1985
32 m awayRef 198513EA33885
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2011130587352 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.