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Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L35 on 22 September 1997 at 14:55 involving a Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry

A Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry and a Leyland National bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 14:55 on Monday 22 September 1997. A 2-year-old male passenger in the Leyland National bus was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Sep 1997
Monday, 14:55
Vehicles
2
Leyland DAF FA 60 and Leyland National
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39977, longitude -2.80805, in the L35 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997050193045
Council area
Knowsley
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
5080

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 slight injury crash on 29 March 1996.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 60

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

  • Vehicle 2: Leyland National

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 2, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Leyland National)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated 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 1997050193045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 1997.