Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS10 on 22 December 2007 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leeds at 19:00 on Saturday 22 December 2007. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74833, longitude -1.52563, 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 3PG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007131127207
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2007131127207 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.