A59 crash in Liverpool on 13 October 1979 at 23:03 involving a bus or coach
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1979
- Saturday, 23:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4381, longitude -2.97151, in the L4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197905B201207
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 31 July 2015
4 m awayRef 2015051501867
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 3 February 2020
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 3 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023052301820
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 24 January 2015
7 m awayRef 2015051500396
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 11 June 2015
7 m awayRef 2015051501476
Slight
Scania crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 2 August 2019
8 m awayRef 2019051911993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 197905B201207 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.