A6037 crash in Bradford on 18 October 2025 at 21:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Mercedes AMG Class were involved in a crash on the A6037 in Bradford at 21:30 on Saturday 18 October 2025. The 41-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and the 53-year-old male driver of the Mercedes AMG Class were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2025
- Saturday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Mercedes AMG Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81035, longitude -1.75729, in the BD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bradford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Manningham, Bradford, BD8 7DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bradford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131656182
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6177
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 10 October 1979
3 m awayRef 197913C113779
Slight
Car crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 30 January 1982
3 m awayRef 198213C002982
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 19 September 2022
4 m awayRef 2022131220769
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A6037 in Bradford, 22 April 2023
6 m awayRef 2023131299796
Slight
Car crash on the A647 in Bradford, 13 December 1981
7 m awayRef 198113C121281
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Bradford, 20 September 2016
9 m awayRef 20161339K0046
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes AMG Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes AMG Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025131656182 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 2025.