Serious A5089 crash in Liverpool on 27 June 1979 at 00:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5089 in Liverpool at 00:45 on Wednesday 27 June 1979. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 1979
- Wednesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42555, longitude -2.95587, in the L4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197905B200746
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5089
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1999.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 7 May 1999
10 m awayRef 1999050095966
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 10 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200705EE19806
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 31 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201105EE07335
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 30 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198505C202002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 22 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198605C300637
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 14 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200305ET02498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 197905B200746 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Liverpool road accident statistics for 1979.