Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF17 on 5 May 2012 at 16:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 16:00 on Saturday 5 May 2012. The 12-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2012
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71288, longitude -1.64603, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130197320
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2000.
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Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 2 April 2000
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Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 May 1999
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Yamaha YZF crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 December 2021
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 April 1984
36 m awayRef 198413P020084
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 May 1996
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 12, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2012130197320 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.