B6409 crash in Kirklees on 28 October 2014 at 08:15 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the B6409 in Kirklees at 08:15 on Tuesday 28 October 2014. The 40-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68869, longitude -1.62973, in the WF12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dewsbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dewsbury East, Kirklees, WF13 1BQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131AS0271
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6409
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2018.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 10 January 2018
2 m awayRef 20181351A0260
Slight
Yamaha XT 600 crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 18 October 2017
4 m awayRef 2017134AS1635
Slight
Foden crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 17 September 2006
4 m awayRef 2006130833906
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 6 November 2010
4 m awayRef 2010130473847
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 6 November 1991
4 m awayRef 199113EC22591
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6409 in Kirklees, 19 December 1996
4 m awayRef 199613EC59996
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2014131AS0271 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.