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Serious unclassified road crash in Bradford BD15 on 16 March 1979 at 21:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bradford at 21:00 on Friday 16 March 1979. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Mar 1979
Friday, 21:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82262, longitude -1.85991, in the BD15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wilsden.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197913B035779
Council area
Bradford
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Snowing with high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2019.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    65 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 197913B035779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bradford road accident statistics for 1979.