Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS23 on 28 March 1985 at 12:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leeds at 12:50 on Thursday 28 March 1985. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1985
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90552, longitude -1.34943, in the LS23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston Spa.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513BC06785
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 659
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A659 in Leeds, 22 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198613BC13286
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 18 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198413L031284
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A659 in Leeds, 4 July 1994
22 m awayRef 199413AC16694
Slight
Van crash on the A659 in Leeds, 3 December 1982
22 m awayRef 198213L065682
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A659 in Leeds, 1 July 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the A659 in Leeds, 12 November 1987
32 m awayRef 198713BC28087
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198513BC06785 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.