Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 7 November 1984 at 20:15 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 20:15 on Wednesday 7 November 1984. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1984
- Wednesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38131, longitude -2.96916, 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
- 198405F201903
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198405F201903 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 1984.