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Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L13 on 18 March 1986 at 21:15 involving a taxi

A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 21:15 on Tuesday 18 March 1986. A 54-year-old male pedestrian hit by the taxi was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Mar 1986
Tuesday, 21:15
Vehicles
2
Taxi and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42948, longitude -2.92465, in the L13 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
198605D200525
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1998.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    30 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

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 198605D200525 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 1986.