A5040 crash in Liverpool on 31 July 1997 at 16:25 involving a Nissan Micra
A car and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A5040 in Liverpool at 16:25 on Thursday 31 July 1997. An 8-year-old female passenger in the car, a 6-year-old female passenger in the car and a 2-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40924, longitude -2.98304, in the L1 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
- 1997050158670
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5040
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 7 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050124264
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 October 1998
At the same spotRef 1998050208157
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 11 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050111098
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 4 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050078227
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 10 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025052502051
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A59 in Liverpool, 20 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199005A200745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1997050158670 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.