Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L7 on 2 March 1997 at 03:35 involving a minibus
A minibus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 03:35 on Sunday 2 March 1997. The 36-year-old male driver of the minibus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 1997
- Sunday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Minibus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40361, longitude -2.95673, 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
- 1997050045327
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198905D301364
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Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 28 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998050046394
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 January 1998
At the same spotRef 1998050008295
Serious
MCW Metrocab crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 4 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199305D302297
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 25 January 1998
At the same spotRef 1998050017557
Fatal
Ford Scorpio crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 23 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995050295020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 1997050045327 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.