A653 crash in Leeds on 23 December 2019 at 10:30 involving a Vauxhall Movano
A Vauxhall Movano and a Volkswagen Touran were involved in a crash on the A653 in Leeds at 10:30 on Monday 23 December 2019. A 63-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Volkswagen Touran was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2019
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Movano and Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7774, longitude -1.5449, in the LS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hunslet & Riverside, Leeds, LS11 6HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019136CN0446
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 653
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A653 in Leeds, 1 February 2015
2 m awayRef 2015132211294
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A653 in Leeds, 6 November 2002
4 m awayRef 2002131191802
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025131587894
Slight
Car crash on the A653 in Leeds, 10 December 1984
4 m awayRef 198413F128784
Slight
Car crash on the A653 in Leeds, 30 January 1989
4 m awayRef 198913CA02189
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A653 in Leeds, 9 January 2000
4 m awayRef 200013CA00900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Movano
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2019136CN0446 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 2019.