B5342 crash in Liverpool on 21 November 1983 at 18:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5342 in Liverpool at 18:15 on Monday 21 November 1983. The 35-year-old female cyclist 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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1983
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38714, longitude -2.94779, in the L8 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
- 198305F201909
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5173
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2018.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 16 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018051840337
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 15 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200705FF22567
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 11 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201105FF06981
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 17 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200705FF15279
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 6 November 2013
13 m awayRef 201305FF04990
Serious
MG HS crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 11 January 2023
14 m awayRef 2023052300151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 35, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198305F201909 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.