A657 crash in Leeds on 8 September 2009 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Citroen C2 were involved in a crash on the A657 in Leeds at 17:30 on Tuesday 8 September 2009. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2009
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83029, longitude -1.68713, in the LS28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Calverley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Calverley & Farsley, Leeds, LS28 5PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130752409
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 657
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 25 November 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A657 in Leeds, 25 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003131274403
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A657 in Leeds, 10 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199013CB07490
Serious
Suzuki GS 500 crash on the A657 in Leeds, 6 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000130440700
Slight
Car crash on the A657 in Leeds, 16 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198613CB05386
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A657 in Leeds, 15 January 2008
10 m awayRef 2008130036208
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A657 in Leeds, 23 June 2008
10 m awayRef 2008130524708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2009130752409 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 2009.