Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS6 on 31 December 2017 at 19:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
Two Vauxhall Corsas and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Leeds at 19:35 on Sunday 31 December 2017. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82357, longitude -1.57997, in the LS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headingley & Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 3HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017134CV1387
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 660
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2022.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A660 in Leeds, 21 April 2022
3 m awayRef 2022131168655
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A660 in Leeds, 10 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022131142734
Serious
Polestar 2 crash on the A660 in Leeds, 28 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025131570809
Slight
Car crash on the A660 in Leeds, 25 February 1985
4 m awayRef 198513AA04185
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A660 in Leeds, 25 April 1991
4 m awayRef 199113AA10791
Slight
Car crash on the A660 in Leeds, 19 June 1984
4 m awayRef 198413K028584
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017134CV1387 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.