A653 crash in Leeds on 22 October 2004 at 22:05 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Toyota Space Cruiser were involved in a crash on the A653 in Leeds at 22:05 on Friday 22 October 2004. A 47-year-old female passenger in the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2004
- Friday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Toyota Space Cruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73602, longitude -1.57519, in the WF3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morley.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004131055304
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 653
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A653 in Leeds, 12 November 1981
10 m awayRef 198113F131481
Slight
Car crash on the A653 in Leeds, 21 August 1989
14 m awayRef 198913CC21889
Slight
HGV crash on the A653 in Leeds, 14 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199913CA37099
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A653 in Leeds, 28 September 2015
24 m awayRef 20151329T0587
Serious
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A653 in Leeds, 11 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025131666894
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A653 in Leeds, 4 December 2017
32 m awayRef 2017134C41631
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Space Cruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004131055304 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 2004.