A654 crash in Leeds on 2 October 2007 at 17:53 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Volkswagen Eos were involved in a crash on the A654 in Leeds at 17:53 on Tuesday 2 October 2007. The 43-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Eos was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2007
- Tuesday, 17:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Volkswagen Eos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73878, longitude -1.54317, in the LS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Middleton Park, Leeds, LS10 4HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007130849007
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 654
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A654 in Leeds, 17 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198513CC16185
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A654 in Leeds, 28 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199713CA67997
Slight
Volvo crash on the A654 in Leeds, 16 August 2011
20 m awayRef 2011130377724
Slight
Car crash on the A654 in Leeds, 16 June 1981
20 m awayRef 198113F077381
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 28 June 2024
48 m awayRef 2024131461487
Serious
Car crash on the A654 in Leeds, 8 November 1986
61 m awayRef 198613CC26186
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Eos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Eos)
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 2007130849007 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 2007.