Serious A58 crash in Leeds on 3 November 2018 at 20:31 involving a Renault Kadjar
A Renault Kadjar and a Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A58 in Leeds at 20:31 on Saturday 3 November 2018. The 26-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2018
- Saturday, 20:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kadjar and Suzuki GS 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77129, longitude -1.63065, in the LS12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018135B31950
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 58
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A62 in Leeds, 4 November 1979
24 m awayRef 197913F141179
Slight
Car crash on the A58 in Leeds, 30 January 1983
49 m awayRef 198313H005583
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A58 in Leeds, 17 January 1988
52 m awayRef 198813CB01688
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A58 in Leeds, 14 December 1997
52 m awayRef 199713CB43197
Slight
Car crash on the A58 in Leeds, 6 August 1984
59 m awayRef 198413H038884
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A58 in Leeds, 23 October 1994
65 m awayRef 199413CB34094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kadjar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GS 500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GS 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018135B31950 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 2018.