Serious A652 crash in Kirklees on 8 February 2014 at 14:00 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 and a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A652 in Kirklees at 14:00 on Saturday 8 February 2014. The 27-year-old female rider of the Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Feb 2014
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A5 and Yamaha XC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71241, longitude -1.62694, in the WF17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Batley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Batley East, Kirklees, WF17 5EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131280905
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 April 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 16 April 1982
4 m awayRef 198213P016882
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 11 November 1980
16 m awayRef 198013P147580
Slight
Aprilia crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 19 February 2003
19 m awayRef 2003130197703
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 26 October 1991
24 m awayRef 199113EB27091
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A652 in Kirklees, 9 December 2025
24 m awayRef 2025131680674
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 6 March 2010
26 m awayRef 2010130001599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha XC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha XC 125)
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 2014131280905 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 2014.