Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS5 on 1 March 2008 at 01:00 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leeds at 01:00 on Saturday 1 March 2008. A 20-year-old female passenger in the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2008
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8234, longitude -1.6059, in the LS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkstall, Leeds, LS5 3NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008130185108
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 28 December 2000
14 m awayRef 2000131367600
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 9 May 2002
20 m awayRef 2002130490602
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Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 December 1983
22 m awayRef 198313H059083
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 15 January 1994
30 m awayRef 199413AA03694
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 24 April 1988
32 m awayRef 198813AB08988
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 27 July 2009
32 m awayRef 2009130599209
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2008130185108 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 2008.