A642 crash in Leeds on 22 December 2020 at 12:14 involving a DS DS3
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2020
- Tuesday, 12:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- DS DS3 and Renault Kadjar
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72758, longitude -1.45777, in the WF3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanley & Outwood East, Wakefield, WF3 4BX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020137CM0575
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 642
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 62
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 2016.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A642 in Leeds, 19 June 2016
4 m awayRef 20161336J1107
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A642 in Leeds, 18 August 2008
7 m awayRef 2008130732808
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A642 in Wakefield, 21 February 1998
17 m awayRef 199813DA08198
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Leeds, 22 October 2009
17 m awayRef 2009130873909
Serious
Car crash on the M62 in Leeds, 29 September 2007
33 m awayRef 2007130840207
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M62 in Leeds, 12 April 1997
33 m awayRef 199713MU13797
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DS DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Kadjar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,330 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (DS DS3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020137CM0575 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.