Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS9 on 25 November 1985 at 09:30 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leeds at 09:30 on Monday 25 November 1985. The 27-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 1985
- Monday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80025, longitude -1.517, 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
- 198513BB24185
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 3 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199313BB49993
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 3 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198513BB25085
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 9 May 2025
8 m awayRef 2025131587594
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 26 April 1988
10 m awayRef 198813BB11388
Serious
Triumph crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 31 August 1999
30 m awayRef 199913BB32599
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 8 October 1985
40 m awayRef 198513BB19185
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198513BB24185 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.