Unclassified road crash in Leeds WF3 on 18 July 1983 at 21:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 21:40 on Monday 18 July 1983. A 34-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 1983
- Monday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73311, longitude -1.54051, in the WF3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198313F213283
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198313F213283 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Leeds road accident statistics for 1983.