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Serious A58 crash in Leeds on 21 June 1987 at 23:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A58 in Leeds at 23:15 on Sunday 21 June 1987. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Jun 1987
Sunday, 23:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8188, longitude -1.50251, in the LS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds.

Map of where the crash happened in Leeds

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198713BB13387
Council area
Leeds
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
58
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198713BB13387 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 1987.