A6037 crash in Bradford on 5 April 2017 at 16:49 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Volvo S60 were involved in a crash on the A6037 in Bradford at 16:49 on Wednesday 5 April 2017. The 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Volvo S60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81275, longitude -1.75978, in the BD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bolton & Undercliffe, Bradford, BD2 1DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017134451281
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6037
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1992.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 2 November 1992
17 m awayRef 199213HA17092
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 15 August 2025
17 m awayRef 2025131629204
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 5 February 1997
28 m awayRef 199713HA03197
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 10 October 1999
37 m awayRef 199913HA35799
Slight
Audi Cabriolet crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 3 May 2014
39 m awayRef 2014131530828
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 25 October 1982
41 m awayRef 198213C049382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo S60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2017134451281 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 2017.