Serious unclassified road crash in Bradford BD5 on 20 March 2013 at 16:20 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bradford at 16:20 on Wednesday 20 March 2013. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Mar 2013
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7741, longitude -1.74654, in the BD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Horton, Bradford, BD5 8BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013130120726
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 20 March 2013.
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 20 March 2013
1 m awayRef 2013130120300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 29 March 1994
17 m awayRef 199413GC13094
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 16 January 1991
22 m awayRef 199113GB01391
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 13 June 1988
22 m awayRef 198813GB11988
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 23 February 1995
25 m awayRef 199513GC06895
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 23 December 1993
28 m awayRef 199313GC47993
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2013130120726 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 2013.