Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L15 on 28 July 1983 at 22:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 22:30 on Thursday 28 July 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39564, longitude -2.93009, in the L15 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
- 198305D301442
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5179
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 21 February 1979
At the same spotRef 197905D200170
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 6 November 2021
6 m awayRef 2021052102419
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 9 October 2023
7 m awayRef 2023052302394
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 3 August 2016
7 m awayRef 2016051602513
Slight
Van crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 29 May 2014
7 m awayRef 201405FF02998
Serious
Volvo XC90 crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 4 February 2023
7 m awayRef 2023052300352
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198305D301442 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.