Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF12 on 19 March 2016 at 15:00 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini crashed on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 15:00 on Saturday 19 March 2016. A 50-year-old female passenger 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
- 19 Mar 2016
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Gemini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68647, longitude -1.61307, 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, WF12 8AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20161333J1051
- Council area
- Kirklees
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 1986.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 13 March 1986
9 m awayRef 198613EC06086
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 28 December 1994
9 m awayRef 199413EC54294
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 November 2002
17 m awayRef 2002131237702
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 4 October 2013
18 m awayRef 2013130040930
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 15 February 1989
39 m awayRef 198913EC03289
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 24 August 1990
39 m awayRef 199013EC15290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 20161333J1051 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 2016.