Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L9 on 29 August 1985 at 12:10 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 12:10 on Thursday 29 August 1985. 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
- 29 Aug 1985
- Thursday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46115, longitude -2.96676, in the L9 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
- 198505C201216
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2015.
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 October 1988
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198505C201216 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 1985.