B6159 crash in Leeds on 27 January 2025 at 16:53 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on the B6159 in Leeds at 16:53 on Monday 27 January 2025. A 10-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Tiguan and a 57-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Tiguan were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Monday, 16:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80695, longitude -1.50658, in the LS9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burmantofts & Richmond Hill, Leeds, LS9 6JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131550888
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6159
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 6 December 2011
15 m awayRef 2011130558634
Fatal
Car crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 9 June 1983
15 m awayRef 198313L027683
Serious
Honda CM125C crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 18 December 1990
19 m awayRef 199013BB34990
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 25 August 2000
23 m awayRef 2000130859500
Slight
Car crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 24 January 1988
29 m awayRef 198813BB02088
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6159 in Leeds, 1 December 2019
44 m awayRef 2019136C10519
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025131550888 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 2025.