Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS16 on 23 March 2023 at 15:45 involving a Mercedes Gla Class
A Mercedes Gla Class crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 15:45 on Thursday 23 March 2023. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2023
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Gla Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87001, longitude -1.62448, in the LS16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023131293363
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 22 January 1987
1 m awayRef 198713AA01787
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 25 November 1989
1 m awayRef 198913AA32689
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 3 October 2012
9 m awayRef 2012130427793
Serious
Honda NT650V crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 6 May 2005
9 m awayRef 2005130410405
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 9 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197913K083979
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 12 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198913AA00889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Gla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Gla Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2023131293363 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 2023.