Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS2 on 1 December 2017 at 00:45 involving a Mazda 2
A Mazda 2 crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 00:45 on Friday 1 December 2017. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2017
- Friday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80433, longitude -1.54584, in the LS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little London & Woodhouse, Leeds, LS1 6NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017134C10049
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 16 June 1997
28 m awayRef 199713BA22097
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A64(M) in Leeds, 13 June 2023
31 m awayRef 2023131318331
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A58(M) in Leeds, 30 March 1983
31 m awayRef 198313J004583
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A660 in Leeds, 5 July 1997
63 m awayRef 199713BA25797
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A660 in Leeds, 6 August 2014
70 m awayRef 2014131860189
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A660 in Leeds, 19 March 1994
71 m awayRef 199413BA08694
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 2)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2017134C10049 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.