Serious unclassified road crash in Leeds LS12 on 16 May 2002 at 15:24 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A motorcycle, a Volkswagen Golf and an Austin Maestro were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leeds at 15:24 on Thursday 16 May 2002. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 May 2002
- Thursday, 15:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79943, longitude -1.5873, in the LS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Armley, Leeds, LS12 3LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002130516802
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2016.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 February 2016
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 November 1979
10 m awayRef 197913H166179
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 28 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198513CB17585
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 21 February 2018
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Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 18 March 1987
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 4 September 1996
32 m awayRef 199613CB30096
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2002130516802 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 2002.