Unclassified road crash in Kirklees WF17 on 13 December 2018 at 14:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volvo S40 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees at 14:45 on Thursday 13 December 2018. The 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71941, longitude -1.63005, 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 0AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kirklees
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135CD1105
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2000.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 24 July 2000
15 m awayRef 2000130697900
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 9 July 1982
28 m awayRef 198213P031482
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 16 October 1988
33 m awayRef 198813EB27388
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 22 September 1999
35 m awayRef 199913EC48699
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 18 September 2022
36 m awayRef 2022131220753
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Kirklees, 3 March 2005
42 m awayRef 2005130248805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018135CD1105 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 2018.