Serious C road crash in Bradford BD21 on 4 May 1979 at 22:50 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bradford at 22:50 on Friday 4 May 1979. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 May 1979
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.86879, longitude -1.92408, in the BD21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keighley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197913B061379
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 197913B061379 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.