A580 crash in Liverpool on 18 January 1989 at 18:40 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A580 in Liverpool at 18:40 on Wednesday 18 January 1989. A 30-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 1989
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43224, longitude -2.94052, in the L6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198905C200087
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 580
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- 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 1 October 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 1 October 1998
At the same spotRef 1998050203559
Slight
Car crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 27 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198505C201975
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 4 November 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050220875
Serious
Sym NH crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 28 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025052501449
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 17 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198505C201155
Fatal
Taxi crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 9 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198405C201849
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 198905C200087 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 1989.