Unclassified road crash in Bradford BD20 on 2 March 1983 at 23:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bradford at 23:10 on Wednesday 2 March 1983. The 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 1983
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91221, longitude -1.9412, in the BD20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silsden.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198313B009983
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198313B009983 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 1983.