A656 crash in Leeds on 18 June 2024 at 15:48 involving a Land Rover Discovery
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2024
- Tuesday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Renault Captur
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79339, longitude -1.34709, in the LS25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024131457352
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 656
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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 4 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A656 in Leeds, 4 June 2014
1 m awayRef 2014131640150
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A656 in Leeds, 2 March 2017
2 m awayRef 2017134321414
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A656 in Leeds, 14 December 2024
2 m awayRef 2024131530194
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A656 in Leeds, 21 October 2020
3 m awayRef 2020137AL1334
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A656 in Leeds, 16 November 1994
4 m awayRef 199413BB50494
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 18 June 1983
4 m awayRef 198313L030183
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Captur
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Captur)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Captur)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Captur)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024131457352 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 2024.