A639 crash in Leeds on 27 November 1990 at 09:18 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry and a Toyota Supra were involved in a crash on the A639 in Leeds at 09:18 on Tuesday 27 November 1990. The 24-year-old male driver of the Iveco-Ford lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1990
- Tuesday, 09:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco-Ford and Toyota Supra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75615, longitude -1.44228, in the LS26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rothwell.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199013CC26390
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 639
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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 14 November 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A642 in Leeds, 14 November 2008
At the same spotRef 2008130974008
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A642 in Leeds, 4 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025131598762
Serious
Lorry crash on the A642 in Leeds, 10 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198713CC07487
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Leeds, 21 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198613CC27886
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A642 in Leeds, 10 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199313CA19093
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A642 in Leeds, 27 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199913CA26999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (roof)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Supra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Iveco-Ford)
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 199013CC26390 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 1990.