Serious unclassified road crash in Kirklees HD3 on 8 July 2014 at 07:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 07:20 on Tuesday 8 July 2014. The 19-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63807, longitude -1.82095, in the HD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huddersfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colne Valley East, Kirklees, HD3 4GZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131780186
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 September 2025.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 21 September 2025
19 m awayRef 2025131644667
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 20 February 1999
33 m awayRef 199913EA11499
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 7 September 1986
36 m awayRef 198613EA35186
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 14 March 2002
36 m awayRef 2002130267702
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A62 in Kirklees, 5 January 1983
45 m awayRef 198313Q000783
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 23 August 2010
46 m awayRef 2010130354084
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc 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 2014131780186 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.