Serious A647 crash in Bradford on 11 July 2017 at 12:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda CBR125R motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A647 in Bradford at 12:40 on Tuesday 11 July 2017. The 24-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2017
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79228, longitude -1.73204, 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 9JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20171347B0759
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 647
- 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
- Raining, 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A647 in Bradford, 15 July 1998
3 m awayRef 199813GA24498
Slight
Leyland crash on the A647 in Bradford, 11 March 1994
7 m awayRef 199413GA07494
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A647 in Bradford, 16 August 2000
7 m awayRef 2000130780600
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A647 in Bradford, 16 February 2017
7 m awayRef 20171342G1777
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A647 in Bradford, 3 May 2025
8 m awayRef 2025131586457
Serious
Car crash on the A647 in Bradford, 12 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199613GA35196
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR125R)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 20171347B0759 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.