Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS11 on 29 December 2010 at 17:15 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Leeds at 17:15 on Wednesday 29 December 2010. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2010
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78316, longitude -1.56151, in the LS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beeston & Holbeck, Leeds, LS11 0BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010130552763
- 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, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 16 December 2001
36 m awayRef 2001131376901
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 9 November 1983
40 m awayRef 198313F123383
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 27 May 1999
41 m awayRef 199913CA22199
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 14 January 1991
45 m awayRef 199113CA01391
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 18 November 2001
45 m awayRef 2001131235101
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 13 October 2004
45 m awayRef 2004131015804
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2010130552763 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.