Serious A65 crash in Leeds on 21 November 2020 at 13:50 involving an Audi RS6
Four vehicles, including an Audi RS6 and a Honda CRV, were involved in a crash on the A65 in Leeds at 13:50 on Saturday 21 November 2020. A 58-year-old female passenger in the Audi RS6 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2020
- Saturday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 4
- Audi RS6 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88432, longitude -1.7286, in the LS29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Menston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wharfedale, Bradford, LS29 6DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020137BM0629
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in Leeds, 13 July 1982
8 m awayRef 198213H040282
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A65 in Leeds, 31 October 1994
8 m awayRef 199413AA45394
Slight
Van crash on the A6038 in Leeds, 6 October 1981
8 m awayRef 198113H143381
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A65 in Leeds, 8 September 2010
14 m awayRef 2010130005995
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A65 in Leeds, 17 March 2014
21 m awayRef 20141313H1135
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A65 in Leeds, 25 June 2016
24 m awayRef 20161336P1083
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Audi RS6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi RS6)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2020137BM0629 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 2020.