A6120 crash in Leeds on 20 November 2025 at 20:37 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A6120 in Leeds at 20:37 on Thursday 20 November 2025. The 28-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 20:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84909, longitude -1.52698, in the LS17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leeds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 8BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131671484
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 25 September 2000
3 m awayRef 2000130941800
Slight
Car crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 26 December 1982
7 m awayRef 198213K069382
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 4 January 2016
7 m awayRef 2016133141054
Slight
Taxi crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 7 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023131350491
Slight
Bus crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 21 December 1979
11 m awayRef 197913K196879
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A6120 in Leeds, 19 April 2012
11 m awayRef 2012130171813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 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 2025131671484 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.