Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L4 on 5 December 1983 at 14:25 involving a car
Two cars and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 14:25 on Monday 5 December 1983. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 68-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1983
- Monday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4385, longitude -2.94412, 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
- 198305C201791
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2001.
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 16 October 1982
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Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 20 June 2016
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Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 April 2020
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 13 May 1992
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 3: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198305C201791 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 1983.