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A6110 crash in Leeds on 30 December 1987 at 13:00 involving a lorry

A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A6110 in Leeds at 13:00 on Wednesday 30 December 1987. The 61-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
30 Dec 1987
Wednesday, 13:00
Vehicles
2
Lorry and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76857, longitude -1.5776, in the LS11 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
198713CA30287
Council area
Leeds
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6110
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
643

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1980.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    57 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    61 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 61, 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 198713CA30287 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.