Skip to main content
CrashStats

A562 crash in Liverpool on 17 April 1981 at 15:25 involving a car

A car crashed on the A562 in Liverpool at 15:25 on Friday 17 April 1981. The 24-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Apr 1981
Friday, 15:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38467, longitude -2.90699, in the L18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.

Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198105D100458
Council area
Liverpool
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
562
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
5180

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 198105D100458 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 1981.