Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS11 on 23 May 1991 at 10:10 involving a Freight Rover Sherpa bus
A Freight Rover Sherpa bus crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 10:10 on Thursday 23 May 1991. A 24-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1991
- Thursday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Freight Rover Sherpa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78372, longitude -1.565, in the LS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199113CA11091
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2004.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Freight Rover Sherpa
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Freight Rover Sherpa)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 199113CA11091 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 1991.