Unclassified road crash in Bradford BD8 on 1 August 1983 at 11:15 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bradford at 11:15 on Monday 1 August 1983. An 81-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1983
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80377, longitude -1.76218, in the BD8 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
- 198313C033183
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 650
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 19 April 2000.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A650 in Bradford, 19 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130171700
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A650 in Bradford, 15 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199013GA12990
Slight
Car crash on the A650 in Bradford, 25 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198613GA18986
Serious
Volvo crash on the A650 in Bradford, 8 April 2025
6 m awayRef 2025131575485
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A650 in Bradford, 5 May 2013
6 m awayRef 2013130186593
Slight
Car crash on the A650 in Bradford, 27 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198513GA19185
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198313C033183 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.