Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS9 on 8 October 1985 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leeds at 15:30 on Tuesday 8 October 1985. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 1985
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80025, longitude -1.5164, in the LS9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513BB19185
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 November 2022.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 16 November 2022
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 11 August 1991
10 m awayRef 199113BB21491
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 March 2025
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 3 December 1985
40 m awayRef 198513BB25085
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 3 December 1993
40 m awayRef 199313BB49993
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 25 November 1985
40 m awayRef 198513BB24185
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198513BB19185 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 1985.