C road crash in Leeds LS5 on 5 July 2017 at 00:24 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on a C road in Leeds at 00:24 on Wednesday 5 July 2017. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 00:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82524, longitude -1.6057, in the LS5 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017134750037
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Raining, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2023.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (roof)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2017134750037 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 2017.