A58 crash in Leeds on 11 June 1997 at 17:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A58 in Leeds at 17:00 on Wednesday 11 June 1997. The 54-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.89515, longitude -1.43176, in the LS17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199713AC18897
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 58
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2013.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A58 in Leeds, 14 December 2013
9 m awayRef 2013130513265
Slight
Car crash on the A58 in Leeds, 8 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198513BC15785
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A58 in Leeds, 12 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000131323300
Slight
Car crash on the A58 in Leeds, 18 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198413L008784
Serious
Car crash on the A58 in Leeds, 8 April 1979
14 m awayRef 197913L045879
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A58 in Leeds, 19 July 2023
15 m awayRef 2023131331553
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 199713AC18897 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 1997.