A652 crash in Kirklees on 12 January 2012 at 09:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A car, a Seat Ibiza and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A652 in Kirklees at 09:00 on Thursday 12 January 2012. The 40-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza and the 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2012
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Ibiza and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72006, longitude -1.64294, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Batley West, Kirklees, WF17 8HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130016834
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 652
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1992.
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 20 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199213EB09492
Slight
Volvo 960 crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 10 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199913EC61699
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 February 2025
10 m awayRef 2025131549802
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 22 February 2024
12 m awayRef 2024131412987
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 25 November 2015
14 m awayRef 2015132BP1244
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 15 December 1992
14 m awayRef 199213EB34092
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2012130016834 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 2012.