Serious unclassified road crash in Bradford BD14 on 2 February 1985 at 22:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bradford at 22:40 on Saturday 2 February 1985. The 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 1985
- Saturday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78481, longitude -1.81571, in the BD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513HB03085
- 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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198513HB03085 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 1985.