A57 crash in Liverpool on 7 January 1997 at 14:45 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A57 in Liverpool at 14:45 on Tuesday 7 January 1997. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 1997
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41522, longitude -2.92119, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997050008457
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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 18 September 1997.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 18 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050189452
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 24 July 2018
1 m awayRef 2018051801731
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 7 May 2013
4 m awayRef 201305EE02519
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 22 December 2024
5 m awayRef 2024052402847
Slight
Bus crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 11 October 2024
7 m awayRef 2024052402221
Slight
Bus crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 8 January 1983
10 m awayRef 198305D200029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- 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 1997050008457 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 1997.