A65 crash in Bradford on 12 December 2012 at 17:50 involving an Audi A4
A bicycle and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A65 in Bradford at 17:50 on Wednesday 12 December 2012. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.89035, longitude -1.73096, in the LS29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wharfedale, Bradford, LS29 6DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012130540950
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A65 in Bradford, 20 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198913HD13889
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A65 in Bradford, 14 January 2009
At the same spotRef 2009130037709
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the A65 in Bradford, 8 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199113HD09491
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A65 in Bradford, 5 November 2001
At the same spotRef 2001131281601
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A65 in Bradford, 23 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199513HD39195
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A65 in Bradford, 3 June 2006
At the same spotRef 2006130494906
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2012130540950 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 2012.