A6034 crash in Bradford on 21 February 2024 at 19:35 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A6034 in Bradford at 19:35 on Wednesday 21 February 2024. The 52-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2024
- Wednesday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90911, longitude -1.93936, in the BD20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silsden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airedale, Bradford, BD20 0AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024131412639
- Council area
- Bradford
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6034
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A6034 in Bradford, 2 April 1980
5 m awayRef 198013B040580
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A6034 in Bradford, 2 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025131662595
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 22 September 1980
19 m awayRef 198013B122580
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A6034 in Bradford, 16 July 1990
25 m awayRef 199013HD16690
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 22 June 2016
25 m awayRef 20161336M1238
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6034 in Bradford, 10 June 1984
37 m awayRef 198413B024884
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024131412639 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 2024.