A638 crash in Kirklees on 3 April 2013 at 15:22 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A638 in Kirklees at 15:22 on Wednesday 3 April 2013. The 39-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2013
- Wednesday, 15:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72084, longitude -1.70763, in the BD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cleckheaton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cleckheaton, Kirklees, BD19 3HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013130138903
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 638
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 17 January 1984
11 m awayRef 198413P002484
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 17 December 1993
21 m awayRef 199313EC91993
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 23 July 1981
21 m awayRef 198113P096481
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 26 March 1990
31 m awayRef 199013EB08490
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 1 September 2025
38 m awayRef 2025131635931
Serious
Bus crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 5 August 2005
54 m awayRef 2005130696105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 2013130138903 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 2013.