A659 crash in Leeds on 21 October 2009 at 22:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A659 in Leeds at 22:00 on Wednesday 21 October 2009. The 17-year-old female driver, a 21-year-old female passenger and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2009
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90979, longitude -1.66933, in the LS21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009130863609
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 659
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1993.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A659 in Leeds, 27 February 1993
20 m awayRef 199313AA06893
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A659 in Leeds, 4 October 1998
22 m awayRef 199813AA46498
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A659 in Leeds, 12 June 2002
22 m awayRef 2002130624402
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A659 in Leeds, 18 July 1996
30 m awayRef 199613AA28996
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A659 in Leeds, 29 March 2000
32 m awayRef 200013AA14000
Slight
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the A659 in Leeds, 1 May 2010
41 m awayRef 2010130003377
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2009130863609 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.