Serious B6138 crash in Calderdale on 24 March 2012 at 15:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B6138 in Calderdale at 15:30 on Saturday 24 March 2012. The 51-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68671, longitude -2.00799, in the HX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Calderdale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130133892
- Council area
- Calderdale
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6138
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2020.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 5 July 2020
27 m awayRef 2020137751323
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 7 October 1992
50 m awayRef 199213FD15092
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 24 October 1998
57 m awayRef 199813FD36798
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 17 December 1997
57 m awayRef 199713FD44397
Serious
Car crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 12 May 2006
198 m awayRef 2006130414306
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on the B6138 in Calderdale, 7 September 2021
204 m awayRef 2021131085677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2012130133892 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Calderdale road accident statistics for 2012.