A6120 crash in Leeds on 22 December 2014 at 17:56 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A6120 in Leeds at 17:56 on Monday 22 December 2014. The 28-year-old male driver and a 10-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2014
- Monday, 17:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8369, longitude -1.61555, in the LS18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014131CM1223
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 29 October 1988
23 m awayRef 198813AB24088
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 6 November 2011
50 m awayRef 2011130510863
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 5 October 2009
54 m awayRef 2009130934609
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 15 May 2019
67 m awayRef 20191365F0348
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 24 August 2023
86 m awayRef 2023131345038
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 30 September 1997
130 m awayRef 199713AA44997
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2014131CM1223 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 2014.