Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees BD12 on 4 June 2014 at 00:42 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 00:42 on Wednesday 4 June 2014. A 16-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jun 2014
- Wednesday, 00:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74628, longitude -1.73667, in the BD12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oakenshaw. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyke, Bradford, BD4 6SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131640044
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 11 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 11 December 1979
4 m awayRef 197913P159479
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 5 March 2016
4 m awayRef 2016133351086
Fatal
MG MGF crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 July 2017
6 m awayRef 20171347D0195
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 30 August 2003
11 m awayRef 2003130934003
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 6 December 2008
11 m awayRef 2008131050508
Serious
Car crash on the A638 in Kirklees, 21 November 1985
11 m awayRef 198513EB29385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014131640044 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.