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Serious unclassified road crash in Bradford BD20 on 9 December 1987 at 11:00 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bradford at 11:00 on Wednesday 9 December 1987. A 70-year-old female passenger in the car was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Dec 1987
Wednesday, 11:00
Vehicles
2
Car and lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87966, longitude -1.92391, in the BD20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keighley.

Map of where the crash happened in Bradford

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198713HD31187
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
Crossroads
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2016.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    42 years

  • Vehicle 2: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    58 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 198713HD31187 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 1987.