Serious unclassified road crash in Bradford BD3 on 12 April 2016 at 03:30 involving a Toyota Auris taxi
A Toyota Auris taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Bradford at 03:30 on Tuesday 12 April 2016. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 2016
- Tuesday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8031, longitude -1.73663, in the BD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bowling & Barkerend, Bradford, BD3 0RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20161334C0107
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 22 January 1997
16 m awayRef 199713GA02597
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 5 December 2016
17 m awayRef 2016133C71215
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 30 June 2025
17 m awayRef 2025131609630
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 5 November 1999
20 m awayRef 199913GA34399
Slight
Austin Morris Princess crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 24 August 1992
20 m awayRef 199213HA13092
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 5 February 2015
24 m awayRef 2015132251018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 20161334C0107 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 2016.