A6120 crash in Leeds on 12 April 2025 at 20:12 involving a Suzuki Grand Vitara
An electric motorcycle, a Suzuki Grand Vitara and a BMW M1 were involved in a crash on the A6120 in Leeds at 20:12 on Saturday 12 April 2025. The 18-year-old male rider of the electric motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2025
- Saturday, 20:12
- Vehicles
- 3
- Suzuki Grand Vitara and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82246, longitude -1.4567, in the LS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cross Gates & Whinmoor, Leeds, LS14 5QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131577244
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6120
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 15 September 1986
3 m awayRef 198613BB21886
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A64 in Leeds, 1 November 1991
3 m awayRef 199113BB28591
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 24 March 2010
3 m awayRef 2010130002228
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A64 in Leeds, 5 May 2004
3 m awayRef 2004130446404
Slight
Volkswagen Fox crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 4 April 2016
5 m awayRef 2016133440714
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 28 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023131346184
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Electric motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Grand Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: BMW M1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Emergency vehicle (blue light) on response
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, e-scooter or powered transporter user, on vehicle 1 (Electric motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025131577244 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.