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Serious B6137 crash in Leeds on 4 January 1997 at 11:50 involving a Dennis bus

A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the B6137 in Leeds at 11:50 on Saturday 4 January 1997. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Jan 1997
Saturday, 11:50
Vehicles
1
Dennis
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7747, longitude -1.37527, in the LS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kippax.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199713BB00497
Council area
Leeds
Police force
West Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
6137
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 December 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Dennis

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)

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

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 199713BB00497 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.