A642 crash in Leeds on 23 December 2025 at 13:31 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on the A642 in Leeds at 13:31 on Tuesday 23 December 2025. The 34-year-old female driver of the Kia Sportage was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 13:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7987, longitude -1.36931, in the LS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Garforth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garforth & Swillington, Leeds, LS25 2PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Leeds
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025131687200
- Council area
- Leeds
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 642
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 2002.
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A642 in Leeds, 19 February 2002
6 m awayRef 2002130165102
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A642 in Leeds, 9 November 1987
13 m awayRef 198713BC27487
Slight
Volvo crash on the A642 in Leeds, 2 November 1992
13 m awayRef 199213BC26092
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A642 in Leeds, 22 August 2019
13 m awayRef 20191368M1404
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A642 in Leeds, 31 March 2010
17 m awayRef 2010130002435
Slight
Car crash on the A642 in Leeds, 30 October 1998
26 m awayRef 199813BB45498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025131687200 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.