B5175 crash in Liverpool on 31 May 1989 at 18:30 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the B5175 in Liverpool at 18:30 on Wednesday 31 May 1989. The 40-year-old female driver of the car and an 11-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 1989
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38906, longitude -2.94468, in the L17 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
- 198905F200815
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5175
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1990.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B5175 in Liverpool, 14 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199005F200344
Slight
Car crash on the B5175 in Liverpool, 3 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198605F201825
Slight
Car crash on the B5175 in Liverpool, 5 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198505F200410
Slight
BMW crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 15 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199105F201062
Fatal
Car crash on the B5175 in Liverpool, 29 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198905F201523
Slight
Car crash on the B5175 in Liverpool, 28 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198805F201485
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 198905F200815 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.