Serious unclassified road crash in Knowsley L32 on 2 March 1981 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 09:00 on Monday 2 March 1981. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Mar 1981
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4871, longitude -2.90179, in the L32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198105K200214
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 2019.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 17 August 2019
7 m awayRef 2019052000085
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5192 in Sefton, 24 April 2017
7 m awayRef 2017051701011
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5192 in Knowsley, 23 March 2017
13 m awayRef 2017051700762
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 21 February 1980
14 m awayRef 198005K200154
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 15 January 1984
14 m awayRef 198405C300077
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 24 December 2008
20 m awayRef 200805CC29901
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198105K200214 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 1981.