Serious unclassified road crash in Leeds LS23 on 3 January 2005 at 18:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leeds at 18:15 on Monday 3 January 2005. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jan 2005
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88038, longitude -1.35513, in the LS23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wetherby, Leeds, LS23 6QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005130006205
- 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
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 14 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130498000
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 28 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199713AC11197
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 11 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200013AC04800
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 25 February 1985
30 m awayRef 198513BC05285
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 25 March 2025
36 m awayRef 2025131569206
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 9 March 1997
80 m awayRef 199713AC07497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005130006205 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 2005.