Fatal unclassified road crash in Bradford BD7 on 1 August 1980 at 23:29 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on an unclassified road in Bradford at 23:29 on Friday 1 August 1980. The 22-year-old male rider was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 1 Aug 1980
- Friday, 23:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79238, longitude -1.77363, in the BD7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198013D045580
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 22, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 198013D045580 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 1980.