Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L4 on 25 October 1979 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 15:45 on Thursday 25 October 1979. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1979
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44005, longitude -2.96418, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197905B201283
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 August 2014.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 7 August 2014
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 20 August 1980
50 m awayRef 198005B200936
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 May 1993
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Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 September 1997
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Nissan Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 25 October 1991
71 m awayRef 199105C201574
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 April 1996
80 m awayRef 1996050095130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 197905B201283 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.