A5048 crash in Liverpool on 30 August 1996 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
Eight vehicles, including a Vauxhall Carlton and two Ford Fiestas, were involved in a crash on the A5048 in Liverpool at 17:00 on Friday 30 August 1996. A 64-year-old female passenger in vehicle 7 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 1996
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 8
- Vauxhall Carlton and 7 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40312, longitude -2.96199, in the L7 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
- 1996050194565
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5048
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 serious injury crash on 21 May 1995.
Serious
Austin Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 21 May 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050112852
Slight
Car crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 21 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996050238468
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 3 May 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050104024
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 11 September 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050210090
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 19 August 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050196751
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 21 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050296619
Vehicles involved (8)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 5: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 6: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 7: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 8: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 7 (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 1996050194565 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 1996.