A657 crash in Bradford on 26 December 2018 at 18:00 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a car were involved in a crash on the A657 in Bradford at 18:00 on Wednesday 26 December 2018. The 44-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83424, longitude -1.76814, in the BD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shipley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shipley, Bradford, BD18 3PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135CU1233
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 657
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2025.
Slight
Car crash on the A657 in Bradford, 20 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025131592961
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A657 in Bradford, 18 April 2017
2 m awayRef 20171344I0284
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 27 June 2019
2 m awayRef 20191366R1060
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A657 in Bradford, 22 November 2013
4 m awayRef 2013130485574
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A657 in Bradford, 11 February 1992
8 m awayRef 199213HC03992
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A657 in Bradford, 2 January 1993
8 m awayRef 199313HA00893
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2018135CU1233 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 2018.