believe the woman was \u201ccarried\u201d by the vehicle to Neville Road.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has since been bailed.\n<\/p>\n
‘I\u2019ve never come across anything like this before’<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Imran Khan, who represents the Bowling and Barkerend ward, described the incident as \u201cquite scary\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI\u2019ve never come across anything like this before.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m shocked and horrified by what happened. It\u2019s a horrific accident.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy heart goes out to the victim and her family.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy thoughts and prayers go out to them.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s really sad when someone loses their life in a tragic way.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI feel for the family and the victim.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
‘Absolutely shocking’<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Rizwana Jamil, who also represents Bowling and Barkerend ward, said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely shocking that something like this has happened. It\u2019s unbelievable.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019d like to send my sincere condolences to the friends and family of the lady.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019re here to support them in any way.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnybody who saw anything or has any footage, I urge them to contact the police.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTheir enquiries will get to the bottom of what happened and hopefully will give the family some closure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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A body was found on Neville Road in East Bowling after a collision (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
Other councillors express condolences<\/p>\n
\n Bolton and Undercliffe ward councillor Julie Humphreys described the incident as \u201cshocking and devastating\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cI\u2019m shocked and saddened to hear about this incident.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy thoughts and prayers are with the family of this lady.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI urge anyone to get in touch with police to help their investigation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Another Bolton and Undercliffe ward councillor, Cllr Suhail Choudhry, said: \u201cI\u2019m deeply saddened by the loss of this woman.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy condolences go out to her family.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI urge anyone to get in contact the police to assist with their investigation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Community in shock<\/p>\n
\n The T&A visited the scenes at Neville Road and Harrogate Road on Thursday morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for one local business told the T&A: “We’re shocked to hear it.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s sad to have anybody lose their life to an incident.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Many other local businesses in the\u00a0Neville Road area had closed by 5pm and were unaware that a body had been discovered.\n<\/p>\n
\n One business owner said: “We’ve not seen anything. We were gone by then.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Another also said they were closed before\u00a0the police cordon went up.\n<\/p>\n
\n One person said it was “so sad”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another business owner said: “It’s a bit shocking. We don’t assume these things happen.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Two businesses near the Harrogate Road junction were aware a police cordon had been put up at the scene last night.\n<\/p>\n
\n A person at one business said: \u201cWe were open but I wasn\u2019t here so I had no idea what happened.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Another business owner said: \u201cWe heard about it but we didn\u2019t know what happened as we were closed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Full police statement<\/p>\n
\n In a statement on Thursday, a spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: \u201cPolice are appealing for witnesses after a fatal road traffic collision in Bradford.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOfficers were called at around 5.20pm\u00a0yesterday\u00a0(Wednesday, April 15) to reports that a pedestrian was in collision with an HGV on Harrogate Road towards Killinghall Road.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA short while later officers received a call that the body of a woman has been found on Neville Road.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSadly, the\u00a077-year-old\u00a0woman was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cExtensive enquiries are ongoing by the Major Collision Enquiry Team.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFrom our enquiries we believe that the woman involved in the collision was carried by the vehicle to Neville Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cPolice then received reports about a body being found at that location.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA man aged 55 was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He has since been bailed pending further enquiries.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Police issue appeal<\/p>\n
\n Detective Inspector Paul Conroy from MCET said:\u00a0\u201cThis is an extremely upsetting incident involving an elderly pedestrian in Bradford.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our thoughts go out to the family who are being supported by specially trained officers.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am appealing to anyone who was in the Harrogate Road\/Killinghall Road area who may have dash cam footage of the HGV or the pedestrian at the traffic lights to come forward.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe understand there were several vehicles in the area at the time of the collision who may have\u00a0witnessed\u00a0it, we are keen to speak to the driver of a red Ford Max, a grey Skoda SUV, a silver\u00a0Toyota\u00a0and a white SUV.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are also keen to speak to anyone who saw the HGV after the road traffic collision driving towards Neville Road.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone\u00a0with information or dash cam is asked to contact police via 101 or use the live chat options at\u00a0www.westyorkshire.police.uk\/livechat\u00a0quoting log number 1331.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Yorkshire Police received a report just after 5pm yesterday (Wednesday) of a collision involving a female pedestrian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}