Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L7 on 12 August 1983 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 15:15 on Friday 12 August 1983. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Aug 1983
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40884, longitude -2.94346, in the L7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305D201528
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199105D201869
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 15 May 1995
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 16 October 1986
41 m awayRef 198605D201967
Slight
Van crash on the A5047 in Liverpool, 30 March 1979
51 m awayRef 197905C200285
Slight
Car crash on the A5047 in Liverpool, 26 June 1989
51 m awayRef 198905D301066
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5047 in Liverpool, 20 December 1990
51 m awayRef 199005D302460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198305D201528 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.