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A57 crash in Liverpool on 28 August 1996 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen

A Volkswagen hit a pedestrian on the A57 in Liverpool at 16:00 on Wednesday 28 August 1996. A 46-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Aug 1996
Wednesday, 16:00
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41213, longitude -2.9479, in the L7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996050199802
Council area
Liverpool
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
57
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
5173

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
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 29 July 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    1,285 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1996050199802 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.