Unclassified road crash in Bradford BD5 on 5 October 1979 at 15:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bradford at 15:38 on Friday 5 October 1979. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1979
- Friday, 15:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77562, longitude -1.75415, in the BD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197913E109479
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 17 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198913GB01889
Slight
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Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 11 February 2025
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 31 January 1983
22 m awayRef 198313E202283
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 11 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198413E208484
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 13 November 1992
22 m awayRef 199213GB25692
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 197913E109479 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.