Serious A57 crash in Liverpool on 18 September 1997 at 20:08 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A57 in Liverpool at 20:08 on Thursday 18 September 1997. A 43-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 1997
- Thursday, 20:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997050189452
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 1997.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 7 January 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050008457
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 (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1997050189452 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.