A6037 crash in Bradford on 5 December 2019 at 17:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A6037 in Bradford at 17:00 on Thursday 5 December 2019. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class and the 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2019
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80152, longitude -1.75037, in the BD1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bolton & Undercliffe, Bradford, BD3 0LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019136C51259
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 650
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2005.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A650 in Bradford, 24 November 2005
1 m awayRef 2005131089505
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A650 in Bradford, 24 July 1991
1 m awayRef 199113GA12391
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A650 in Bradford, 9 August 2004
1 m awayRef 2004130792104
Slight
Aprilia crash on the A650 in Bradford, 23 February 2007
1 m awayRef 2007130220007
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 27 January 1994
1 m awayRef 199413GA02594
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A650 in Bradford, 18 April 2004
1 m awayRef 2004130369404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019136C51259 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 2019.