Unclassified road crash in Leeds LS26 on 18 May 2025 at 15:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Leeds at 15:05 on Sunday 18 May 2025. The 40-year-old male 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
- 18 May 2025
- Sunday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72947, longitude -1.42357, in the LS26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131591600
- 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
- 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, 117 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2001.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 5 February 2001
117 m awayRef 2001130148701
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the B6135 in Leeds, 22 January 1992
197 m awayRef 199213CC01792
Slight
Bus crash on the B6135 in Leeds, 16 November 1996
202 m awayRef 199613CA54496
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Leeds, 7 August 2001
212 m awayRef 2001130833001
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6135 in Leeds, 19 September 1996
214 m awayRef 199613CA40096
Slight
Car crash on the B6135 in Leeds, 1 March 1984
216 m awayRef 198413F203984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025131591600 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.