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Serious unclassified road crash in Leeds LS16 on 7 February 2010 at 00:01 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leeds at 00:01 on Sunday 7 February 2010. A 34-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Feb 2010
Sunday, 00:01
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82843, longitude -1.6051, in the LS16 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2010130001604
Council area
Leeds
Police force
West Yorkshire
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single 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, lighting unknown
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1993.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), 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 2010130001604 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 2010.