Unclassified road crash in Bradford BD5 on 24 May 1983 at 22:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bradford at 22:40 on Tuesday 24 May 1983. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1983
- Tuesday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77625, longitude -1.75157, in the BD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198313E209183
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 31 October 1982
10 m awayRef 198213E043882
Serious
Alfa Romeo Alfasud crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 23 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199213GB09292
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 23 November 1979
10 m awayRef 197913E132879
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 19 March 1981
10 m awayRef 198113E038081
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 22 January 1992
14 m awayRef 199213GB02392
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 26 April 1987
20 m awayRef 198713GB07187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198313E209183 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.